On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 14:43 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > Anyone intersted in further study could easily discover the U.S. > patent numbers that were originally licensed to NemeSys. (Not Tascam!) > If someone cannot do that for themselves then they probably could > figure out someone who does know the numbers and ask so they could > read the patents for themselves. > > Please note that while I am greatly disappointed that all of this has > happened I still thinkLS is a really great piece of work and I, for > one, still have great respect for all the folks that have done this > work. If the issue really is a patent dispute involving a patent that is 1) a software patent and 2) obvious and therefore invalid, wouldn't this be the first case where a corporation went after a free software project for software patent infringement? And if this were the case shouldn't there be a huge uproar going on? Lee
