[DotGNU]Re: microsoft patents

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

David's points on RAND are quite correct.  For the patent to be
implementable in GPL'ed Free Software, it has to be licensed under a RF
license without any field of use restrictions.

This is what we expected, folks -- they chose ECMA precisely because EMCA
has a clear policy to allow RAND patents to be in held on the
specification.  I am not sure there is much we can do but wait and see
what the patent office does with it.  We may have a patent fight on our
hands by the by.

Rhys, do you have any information if they are also pursuing the patent
application in Australia?

   -- bkuhn
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