John Hebert wrote:
>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? > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent >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/ > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
