On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 06:13 +0100, twofourtysix wrote: > Mostly, I was hoping that all those people who seem more than happy to > advocate something with *words* would be prepared to back them up with > *actions*. I think it's a shame that Gentoo is prepared to encourage > people to pester their politicians whilst simultaneously refusing to > spend a few minutes practising what it preaches.
Ok ... let's remove all software that might violate a european patent. As some people stated, the kernel will go. As far as I know glibc and gcc will be removed too. All programs using sockets could potentially be an abuse, so no network for you. No progress bars. Etc. etc. I think skel.ebuild will be among the few survivors - 30.000 patents don't leave much space for non-violating software, especially once you realize that many of those patents are for trivial ideas (which are unpatentable) Or in other words: Stop using "Free" Software since it's theft ;-) wkr, Patrick -- Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move
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