Hi Alexandre, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > IMO, > giving proprietary guys even a tiny chance to sue one of our > developers should never occur.
Unfortunately, with the US legal system, it's almost certainly the case that the proprietary guys can sue us whenever they want. Likely enough it will be patent violation, but perhaps trademark and copyright issues will also surface (particularly DMCA). IMHO, avoiding patent-encumbered functionality which is important for advancing the program is a mistake, and is giving in to the flawed legal system. I don't think that we should court lawsuits, but we should also not ham-string ourselves by actively avoiding them. Let the chips fall where they may, one day soon there will be a landmark lawsuit, thousands of patents (and patent applications) will be thrown out, forcing a severe reform of the US and EU patent systems. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
