Rodger, am Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 08:46:28PM +1300 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > 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.
and then getting buyed by some evil corporation who uses the patents against everyone else? (C.f. Sun and Oracle.) It's not that Sun was particularly hostile to open source. Kind regards Philipp Kern ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
