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Chuck Mead wrote:
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| Andrew Newton wrote:
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| | 3) On the issue of ignoring patent claims, the working group has at
| | least rough consensus that the patent claims should not be ignored.
| | Additionally, there is at least rough consensus that the participants of
| | the working group cannot accurately describe the specific claims of the
| | patent application. This stems from the fact that the patent application
| | is not publicly available. Given this, it is the opinion of the
| | co-chairs that MARID should not undertake work on alternate algorithms
| | reasonably thought to be covered by the patent application. We do feel
| | that future changes regarding the patent claim or its associated license
| | could significantly change the consensus of the working group, and at
| | such a time it would be appropriate to consider new work of this type.
|
| I have to ask because it appears to me that you have left this somewhat
| nebulous.
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| Does this mean that the PRA (with it's encumbrance) is being accepted as
| a part of the MARID specification?
It would be nice if the co-chairs would be willing to answer this
question. Thanx.
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Chuck Mead <csm(_at_)redhat(_dot_)com>
Instructor II (and resident Postfix bigot), GLS
Disclaimer: "It's Thursday and my name is Locutus of B0rk!"
Addendum: "Bwahahaha! Fire up the orbital mind-control lasers!"
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