From francois.pellegrini@labri.u-bordeaux.fr  Mon Feb 26 08:52:54 2001
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:52:54 +0100
From: Francois PELLEGRINI francois.pellegrini@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
Subject: [Patents] Dutch MP's demand triviality criteria in the law before
 allowing SW pats

	Hello all,

Bernard Lang wrote:
> You should send that info to AMD, to get more support for Linux ...
> Linux is cross-platforms, hence recreate competition between
> incompatible instruction sets.

	But for the Microsoft market, they're out...

>   but the 80x86 is not dead yet ... lots of legacy hardware, and
> market inertia.

	Yes. However, emulators will be able to bridge the gap for
applications, I think. The biggest work is to re-build bug-free
drivers.




