Random comments on LinuxBIOS

ollie lho ollie at sis.com.tw
Wed Apr 16 22:54:00 CEST 2003


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=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&p=1&p=1&S1=(William+AND+Arbaugh)&OS=William+AND+Arbaugh&RS=(William+AND+Arbaugh)
> 
> 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.
> 

Doesn't the professor (Bill) own a patent on secure boot ? 
Can you cross license with U of Penn ?
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ollie lho <ollie at sis.com.tw>




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