1 May
2001
1 May
'01
1:02 a.m.
Jeremy White wrote:
With COM, the other issue is that someone needs to look at the MS patents in this area. Mainsoft is telling people that they can't use Wine to port COM code, because Microsoft holds patents on some of the Vtable logic used in COM (and no, I don't have any more detail than that, this came to me third hand). I've also asked the FSF for help tracking this FUD down and refuting it.
For the curious: Snooping on his conversation using google.com, I see it's patent number 5297284 he's worried about.
http://164.195.100.11/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtm...
- Dan