Hi, trying to keep the off topic reasonably short...
Well I myself do not have the opinion that patent laws or politics should be the reason why some ReactOS guys do not want help from Americans. There can be lots of reasons. Of course you could ask what the reasons are. But I do think that patents are too long-living and granted for too trivial things today. Entities like Philips have more than 100k patents, simply because they have enough lawyers anyway... Startups, on the other hand, can hardly afford checking whether their own inventions contain things that have been patented (but maybe never used in actual products) by somebody. And to have trivial patents nullified takes much work. I also do think that the Iraq war was wrong. Of course Saddam was a pain, but only countries in the area had any reason to start a war with him... Now you just have a vacuum. Former oppressor gone and new govt does not fit the local culture. And, well, all that terror stuff, Bin Laden had money and power from when he was a "friend" because he was an enemy of the enemy. Very unfortunate. Today, the "war" -against- terror hurts my civil rights far more than terror itself hurts me. War against a few people is not possible. Similar to the problem that you cannot free the internet from spam by using weapons. And "war" against spam even makes people stop using email... Talking about energy consumption: I guess the solution is not using other sources of energy - The solution is only using less energy. LED lights, AMD64x2EE or Intel Core2Duo, small cars, isolated houses, all that stuff. In any case, I would like to repeat that strange politics and laws in the USA should be treated separate from the point that it is fun to have international open source projects... I was just trying to guess why some ReactOS related people have a problem with "Americans as such". I myself only have a problem with the politics and laws. Eric PS: We can of course continue this chat via direct mail but I did not know if you still use that blacklist which has "Germany as a whole" listed as "spammer safe haven"...? ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
