I was re-reading Ians message, and I didn't answer it fully.
I intend to use the resources available to me, in this case the patent laws,
to best accomplish my goal of a democratic global file system.
It will be an open source project, but a managed one. I hope to see myself
as the conductor of an orchestra, who use my design as a starting point.
I've concluded (my opinion) that a special set of circumstances (isn't every
situation one?) applies here, and I have to mange my situation accordingly.
Just because I have the patents doesn't mean I have to enforce them.
Let me put it all to you this way: how many of you know what the first
spreadsheet was?
123 or VisiCalc? That's a business lesson that I will not learn the hard
way.
As for Microsoft, I'm referring to their practice of borrowing public
technology, and denied that they are borrowing it.
When you're at Microsoft, and you're trying to solve a problem, aren't you
going to see how others have already solved it?
Of course. But Microsoft takes the credit.
I WILL NOT let them take MFS, and rename it to OFS, which was their failed
attempt at the same thing.
And if they do, you can expect to see win32 for linux, because I know who
borrowed their code.
And to summarize: Fuck Microsoft.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2001 5:33 PM
To: Josh
Cc:
Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] RE: I've designed a global file system, it will
obsolete NFS, Gnutella, etc. I want to be assimilated by freenet!
<< File: ATT00038.dat >> On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 03:07:58PM -0700, Josh
wrote:
> I have studied the documentation, and the overlap is negligible.
So where do you see the opportunity for cooperation? Is your system
designed to protect freedom of speech? As I am sure you are aware
(having read our documentation), the goal of freenet is to protect free
speech on the Internet.
> My software patents are to deal with Microsoft, not to screw over the
world.
Deal with them how? One of the points of Open Source is that it allows
everyone to benefit form your software, even people you don't like.
> The open source community has helped to create Microsoft, they take your
> work, and add it to their own. Clearly violating the GNU license. And they
> don't even respond in kind.
I am not aware of any evidence that Microsoft has taken GPL code and
redistributed it under a different license - can you point me to some?
> Screw 'em, I've learned my lesson, my design is new and unique, so I'm
> patenting it. So I can help enforce a global standard. Otherwise NFS and
AFS
> will be enhanced with MY unique features, and I'll get jack shit out all
the
> effort I've spent.
You seem confused, first you say that the point of these patents is to
help enforce a global standard, but then you imply that it is for
personal profit. Software patents have no place in an Open Source
project.
> I'm sorry that you wont call me Ian, e-mail only accomplishes so much.
I prefer email, I find it must better for discussing technical issues
than a phone call.
Ian.
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