On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 01:56:03PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: > > > Some patents are to important to let a patent troll or potentially malicious > > company scoop it up, so Red Hat will acquire those patents and allow the > > open source community to use them without worrying about licensing that > > piece of technology. > > I think I'll just go patent everything I've ever done now. 8-(
So what's your alternative? Ignore the broken state of IP law, do stuff anyway? You might want to ask Google and friends how that's working out for them vis-a-vis Oracle and Apple. I, for one, would prefer companies with a good track record of commitment to the open source world hoover up dumb patents and leave them sitting idle rather than Apple getting hold of them and launching another one of their efforts to stop anyone else making GUIs, smartphones, or whatever. -- Rodger Donaldson [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
