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From: Chris Thomasson (cristom_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-26 18:00:47


"Greg Colvin" <greg_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:200611261808.kAQI8xwa002839_at_rs34.luxsci.com...
>
>> From: "Chris Thomasson" <cristom_at_[hidden]>
>> Subject: Re: [boost] a 100% lock-free PDR algorithm for Boost, no
>> patent issues...
>> To: boost_at_[hidden]
>> Message-ID: <ekbd9l$5u8$1_at_[hidden]>
>>
>> ... Do a patent search on lock-free...
>
> Lawyers have advised me not to read patents, as knowingly
> violating a patent is a worse crime than unknowingly doing
> so.

How is somebody going to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you read a
patent for sure? Even if you did a patent search, you might of just read the
Abstracts, and not any of the teachings... How to prove?

P.S. --

vZOOM is different from the collector code I posted:


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