Re: [myoss] Re: [ossig] Don't stifle innovation

[Colin Charles <byte@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:15 +1000, Ditesh wrote:
> >Also, look at patent promises:
> >http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html
> >
> >So go ahead, patent something, and create a policy that's OSS
> friendly.
> >  
> >
> 
> Go ahead and patent something?

If you have to patent something new _before_ someone like MS patents
them

Its supposed to be that if there's prior art, you can't patent things.
But we've seen exactly this happen, no?

> We're trying to _oppose_ s/ware patents, not legitimize them.

Its a push comes to shove thing. Most software patents are retarded, and
with the current market we have, if you don't do it, MS or some other
commercial company will do it

Bless the kind folk at Novell, Red Hat, IBM, and all the others that
have given away their patents without issue
-- 
Colin Charles, byte@aeon.com.my
http://www.bytebot.net/
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi


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