linux-kernel - Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:26:56 +1200
From:	Graeme Sheppard <nodes@...lion.net>
To:	alan <alan@...eserver.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patent or not patent a new idea

alan wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007, Graeme Sheppard wrote:
> 
>> Dear devs,
>>
>> In a moment of serendipity I thought of a concept which may be advantageous
>> if incorporated into the kernel. I was going to offer it to the OIN but
>> they responded they only consider existing patents and I don't have the
>> money to afford one.
> 
> How do you know it is a new idea?

The essence of the idea is simple enough that I would have heard of it.
It isn't an arcane programming trick buried deep in code.
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