begin  quoting Christian Seberino as of Mon, May 14, 2007 at 10:31:15AM -0700:
> 
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 12:52 am, Stewart Stremler wrote:
> 
> > Time to look closer at BSD and Minix, I guess.
> 
> That would make sense until you realize that every big piece of software
> violates someones patent.

So I go back a few years. Software that was delivered *before* a patent
cannot be subject to a patent, as it is its own prior art.

I'm sure I have some old BSD releases around.

>                            What I'm saying is it almost seems you can't
> use ANY software until this whole patent mess gets thrown out of this
> country.

Nonsense.

You may not be able to use any /shiny/ software....

...but since when was that necessary for getting anything done?

-- 
The trailing edge is sharper.
Stewart Stremler


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