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Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 16:21:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Kragen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Open Source document
> 1. Access to software that uses patented techniques -- algorithms,
> etc. If Microsoft (or whoever) can get control of some fundamental
> techniques in some relatively new or newly popular area of computer
> applications (multimedia, internetworking, OS scheduling, etc.) then
> they could easily kill all their competitors.
That a big open question. The patent stuff is now inextricably tied up with
the ongoing crypto stuff. If source code is ruled to be speech as it should
be then software patents may become a first amendment issue.
> 2. Draining off Linux developers somehow.
They tried to hire me a few days ago.
^^^^
Alan
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