From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8165 invoked by uid 1002); 27 Aug 2003 21:35:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4332 invoked from network); 27 Aug 2003 21:35:44 -0000 From: Matt Chorman Reply-To: matt@legalizefreedom.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:35:42 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1062016412.3111.3.camel@biproc> <20030827231334.4d70b88d.pYrania@c0ffeine.de> In-Reply-To: <20030827231334.4d70b88d.pYrania@c0ffeine.de> Organization: LegalizeFreedom MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308271435.43103.matt@legalizefreedom.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] European Patentability rules X-Archives-Salt: e72a9f29-775b-43a6-8825-8bcf6713ebeb X-Archives-Hash: 46c8cb1c3d973fe78e513c9978f3a32a 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list