On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 12:44:33 +0000 Andrew Suffield wrote: > It's not a major problem, because you can generate an unarguably free > work once by stripping it, and then everybody can modify the stripped > version instead.
That's true, but...
...what's the difference between a trademark-encumbered work and a
patent-encumbered one?
If I take a patent-encumbered work released under a free copyright
license, I can generate an unarguably free work by stripping the
patented algorithms and replacing them with non-patented ones: then
everybody can deal with the stripped version...
Don't misunderstand me, it's *not* sarcasm: I'm really wondering what's
the difference...
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