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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
Subject: RE: Proposal for new partition type IDs for use with future
  DOSes
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Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 09:50:49 +0200
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Joe wrote:
>1) If anyone has a friend with expertise about patent law, perhaps they
>   could advise what circumstances allow for others to use patented stuff.
>   For instance, some people claim freeware is exempt - is it actually?

I'm not an expert, but if a patent is used without authorisation what you
can do is sue. If there's no contact information at all there would be
noone to sue. However someone must stand behind (a possible even more open
<g>) DR-DOS and FreeDOS, atleast for making downloads possible.
In short, whatever you do that is illegal is still illegal if it's done
without taking out a cost. The question is if you can find the guilty party.
//Bernie