On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Paul Davis wrote: > >Bottom line, screw them and their patent. Let them send their lawyers > >after you, who cares. > > their lawyers could potentially bankrupt you if what you were doing > represented a threat to the income they expected to derive from the patent. > if thats OK with you, please go ahead and violate the patent.
Well I guess I'm not anti-authoritarian and Australian for nothing. What ever happened to standing up for your freedom and rights. Nothing, or nobody should stop you or seek to punish you for releasing an open source software based sampler not for profit. That is surely a kind act of generosity, not a law breaking action. Send the source code to me and I will release it. Why? Because I believe what I said in the above paragraph is true. It is immoral to have software patents, not violate them. Especially ones as absurdly simple as this. How could they proove that you did not come up with the idea yourself? Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? On the other hand. Why not release the source code anonymously and claim that you have nothing to do with it if you fear the consequences that much. How can you feel guilty about lieing about that, when they should feel more guilty for patenting something so simple? Regards, David. P.S. I was about to mention Timidity as a low latency midi controllable sampler but then I remembered it loads all of its samples into RAM.
