Re: Codec Buddy misleading.

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 09:56:57AM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> > But I can accuse you of that whenever I like whether its true or not. So its
> > irrelevant to the discussion, its a totally specious argument.
> 
> In any normal case, the accuser has to prove your guilt.

In a civil dispute its balance of probability

> But as far as I have understood about patents, you have to prove your
> innocence.

In the US maybe. In other countries it is more complicated. In particular
in many of these countries you wouldn't contest the patent you would cite
the caselaw on patentability of software and business methods.

> I don't think it's an irrelevant or totally specious argument.

For europe I think it is. It doesn't help for the Red Hat case because
as a US company Red Hat is obliged to obey US law.