Taken from Good Morning Silicon Valley Article Launched: 05/16/2007 12:57:04 PM PDT Q U O T E D "There are several reasons why engineers should not read other people's patents, only their own. And it's not a 'hide your head in the sand' issue, it's a very practical issue of it being a waste of time." -- Open source icon Linus Torvalds, reacting to Microsoft's claim that the core of Linux violates 42 of its patents -- Gabriela ----------------- CS Graduate Student Senator CSSA Secretary SWE Membership Chair IEEE-ACM Member http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~agaray/