[gentoo-embedded] OT: ? Embedded Patent Fraud

[wireless]

Hello,


It's not often that I would interject a subject like this
into a Gentoo discuss. However, from my reading of this
patent, the awardee may be able to cause significant grief
to anyone that use a uP, FPGA, or such with at CPU/GPU.


http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&d=PALL&RefSrch=yes&Query=PN%2F7607005


Hopefully, some of you will read about this patent and
conclude that this no way affects any embedded linux system
or any form of programmable embedded linux device,
particularly any where reconfigurable or programmable
hardware is contained therein....


This patent looks like the poster child for embedded system,
that should not have been issued. Hopefully Europeans are
not this stupid to allow this sort of patent-garbage to even
be filled, let alone enforced.


I see little in the way of original thought or work as every
claim made by the filers has existed before, from my
experiences. The "moron" that reviewed this:
"Primary Examiner: Connolly; Mark "
must be clueless about embedded systems, imho.


your thoughts?


James