If anyone is interested in learning more about the dangers of software patents, a good place to start is: http://www.eff.org/IP/
Anyone know of other URLs with info about software patents? John Hebert --- Eric G Ortego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://news.com.com/2100-1013_3-5146581.html > > <snip> > Microsoft has applied for patents that could prevent > competing > applications from processing documents created with > the latest version > of the software giant's Office program. > </snip> > > <snip> > "they could prevent future versions of OpenOffice > and StarOffice, its > proprietary sibling, from working with Microsoft's > XML format." > </snip> > -- > > /'We're looking at a future where only the very > largest companies will > be able to implement software, and it will > technically be illegal for > other people to do so.'" > -Bruce Perens --On software patenenting. > / > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net ===== John Hebert 'cat /dev/random | perl' __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/
