[Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] brevets et logiciel libres (version elaboree)

[PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de]

On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, John Tobey wrote:
 
> > Bruce Perens has been threatened with a lawsuit by a company who got a
> > patent on his e-fence concept just a few months before he published his
> > program. Another programmer who wrote a GNU program had to stop because of
> > a patent which came later than his idea.  This case is mentioned in a
> > paper by Richard Stallman on http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/.
 
> Hrmm.  Yes, I had read about these two cases.  Maybe instead of
> claiming that "many have been sued", we should point out that many
> American programmers *risk* being sued or are *threatened* with legal
> action.

Or speak about "legal harrassment" instead of "suing".  
There are also the Thomson and the IPIX case.  Hasn't there been any suing
yet in these?

-phm