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 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
