On Friday 25 February 2005 08:52 pm, Raul Miller wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 08:52:12PM -0800, Sean Kellogg wrote: > > Can this list PLEASE stop the belief that ducking your head in the > > sand in regard to patent violations saves you from increased liability? > > What would that achieve? > > I don't think that we ignore patents because we believe that in doing so > we will encounter some liability but less than if we paid more attention > to them. Some people might have expressed such opinions, but they really > don't make sense.
I completely agree with you! From a PR perspective, political perspective, "what's best for Debian" perspective, I think that ignoring patents makes complete and total sense. I consider it a kind of civil disobedience and serves to point out just how stupid the system has become. Cheers to that! My point, and I will post an e-mail with the response from my Prof. along with some outside research I did in my patents case book to back up this point, is that the clam that we should ignore patents for a LEGAL reason is bogus. Simply doesn't pan out, and I believe there is a solid argument to be made that intentionally ignoring patents serves to increase liability. -Sean -- Sean Kellogg 2nd Year - University of Washington School of Law GPSS Senator - Student Bar Association Editor-at-Large - National ACS Blog [http://www.acsblog.org] c: 206.498.8207 � �e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, let go �...Jump in � ...Oh well, what you waiting for? � �...it's all right � � ...'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown
