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From: Matt Chorman <matt@legalizefreedom.org>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] European Patentability rules
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:35:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200308271435.43103.matt@legalizefreedom.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030827231334.4d70b88d.pYrania@c0ffeine.de>

On Wednesday 27 August 2003 02:13 pm, Markus Nigbur wrote:
> On 27 Aug 2003 22:33:32 +0200
> Aug 27 21:34:17 *       klieber happens to support software patents.
>
> --
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

It's amazing to me that any open-source developer would agree with software 
patents. Just on a random search of the US patent office, I found that I (and 
probably each and every one of you) are guilty of patent infringment - daily. 
Have you ever used a computer to initiate a remote session - ssh? vnc? X?
Look up patent 6,611,865. Be thankful HP hasn't started suing everyone under 
the sun. 

While you're at it, look up 6,611,268. Then look up all patents where the 
Assignee is Microsoft or HP. Then think about the implications of the SCO 
lawsuit and what these companies can do if the courts don't reject SCO's 
argument. There is a major differnese between software patents and 
copyrights. Copyright=good. Software patent=bad.

/me crawls back into his hole
-- 
Matt

http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x7D81740A


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-27 21:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-27 20:33 [gentoo-dev] European Patentability rules Philippe Lafoucrière
2003-08-27 21:13 ` Markus Nigbur
2003-08-27 21:35   ` Matt Chorman [this message]
2003-08-28  1:44     ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-28  4:10       ` Luke-Jr
2003-08-28 10:29         ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-28 11:27           ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-28  8:59       ` Sven Vermeulen
2003-08-28 11:28         ` Stuart Herbert
2003-08-28  9:29     ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-08-28 13:49 ` Lars Weiler
2003-08-28 16:03   ` Philippe Lafoucrière
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-27 22:48 Joshua Brindle

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