Re: Random comments on LinuxBIOS

[ollie lho]

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 10:53, Adam Agnew wrote:
> The one in question is  6,185,678
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=...)
>
> And from my understanding, it's owned by the U of Penn and comes down to
> their decision when an open source implementation can be released.
> Adam A.

Wow !! It is really a patent evil. Prof Arbaugh invented the patent
but assigned it to U of Penn such that he and/or his student can not
do some things related in U of Maryland ??