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From: | amicus_curious |
Subject: | Re: Red Hat on patent FUD |
Date: | Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:52:25 -0400 |
"ml2mst" <ml2mstREMOVE@CAPSgmail.com> wrote in message news:gq2fsa$apa$1@news.albasani.net...
You are wrong. Patents are simply a means to protect the ideas of innovators from wanton copycatting by others. Those who can think of new things to do need to be rewarded or else we will be faced with a steep decline in technological progress. How many copies of commercial applications do we really need?I enjoyed Pieter's comments on BN, but I am pretty confused here. What does it mean, is Redhat becoming another patent troll or am I misinterpreting this? What I recently learned from BN and especially Pieter Hintjens is that we (Europeans) are in trouble. The software patent lobby (of course led by the Evil empire of MICROS~666) is marching on and nobody pays attention and that the FFII has become corrupt (pretty much like ISO). Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I have signed a petition against the legalization of software patents in Europe several times, but it is not working to well, is it?
Demonization is the mark of those who cannot think for themselves and resent those who can.SweatyB (the übermaroon) can scream all he wants.
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