Re: Negotiating for using Royalty Free patents



On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 15:54 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> If you really want to address patents, what we need is to be patenting
> everything we do under open-source-only terms. That would be a great
> thing for some open source related foundation to undertake.

Not only it wouldn't be a great thing (software patents are bad, period)
but also it wold require a foundation with funds comparable to those of
Microsoft's cash reserves, and then some, so it is not feasible.

BTW, I see few gnome related sites closed down in protest against
software patentes

http://demo.ffii.org/inserturl.php

and there's no news about gnome officially doing something, even though
it was asked in the foundation list

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/foundation-list/2004-April/msg00000.html

Hugs, Rui

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