On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:57 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > In an effort to let developers do what they do best and get on with > developing software [2] so I would like to propose a standard build flag > which could be used to fence off code that could be effected by software > patents. While Freetype has a very specific domain, GNOME doesn't. Software involves the combination of thousand of ideas into a single program, yet GNOME is a lot of programs glued together. With such a method one adds a terrible clutter and burden, and in the limit you may have inconsistent GNOME versions, if at all workable. It would have been much better to actively oppose software patents, a much more effective political action, the likes of which I would have liked to see better GNOME support. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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