On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote: > Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 02:38:45 +0100 > From: Rui Miguel Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Software Patents: The Lowest Common Denominator > > On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 21:57 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: > > In an effort to let developers do what they do best and get on with > > developing software [2] so I would like to propose a standard build flag > > which could be used to fence off code that could be effected by software > > patents. > > While Freetype has a very specific domain, GNOME doesn't. > Software involves the combination of thousand of ideas into a single > program, yet GNOME is a lot of programs glued together. > > With such a method one adds a terrible clutter and burden, and in the > limit you may have inconsistent GNOME versions, if at all workable. >
> It would have been much better to actively oppose software patents, I never suggested otherwise. You make it sound like only one approach exists to this problem. Opposing software patents would continue to be a necessity. I am saying software patents already exist and fear of them is already causing developers to hold back in certain areas. We are aware there is a problem. What plans can be made to mitigate against this problem? Sincerely Alan Horkan _______________________________________________ foundation-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-list
