Debian Developers - Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

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Re: [Debian-uk] Sun have (probably) patented apt-get

Florian Weimer

2005-07-06, 5:53 pm

* Turbo Fredriksson:

> YEARS (!) ago I wrote the script that did the pre-upgrades to 'bo' (I _think_
> it was to 'bo' any way

. It basically only ftp'd (or was it wget?)
> required packages from the Debian GNU/Linux FTP site(s), installed them
> and then allowed the user/admin to continue with the upgrade...
>
> Now, that seems like 'prior art' to me (even to apt-get

.

Alas, the patent is about software testing frameworks, and not about
software distribution.

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