2010/12/10 Romain d'Alverny <rdalve...@gmail.com>: > > To summarize, strategies: > 1. ignore the issues and see what happens; > 2. ignore the less significant ones; > 3. get to know each of these and manage case by case > 4. other? > > and factor whenever possible and see what happens, update, repeat. > > 1. and 2. are more radical, but are some sort of trial-and-error, risk > management strategies. Ok... looking at it this way won't lead us > further I guess.
Agreed > Let's try this: what if we consider, at first, that software patents > were a non-issue? (that is, we just consider they are all invalid as > such). > > How would this change/simplify the problem? > - for packaging/shipping the distribution > - for mirroring it > - for using it. >From a mirror maintainer's view: If I am in a country like France (not acknowledging SP) I can ignore safely the issue If I am in a country which does acknowledge SP I will have to decide for myself if I want to take that risk. THis may be an easy decision in some countries but in others (like the USA) it may be a hard decision, also depending on who I am (a private person or a large institution/organisation). >From the users's view: Living in a country without SP (or not caring about the issue) it is the easiest way. I can use automagical setup of media and need not worry about an extra repo to set before I can watch my DVDs :) Again in a country like USA I have to decide for myself - this would be a nightmare if the "whatever-dubious" software is included in the normal repos. I would have to find out by myself which is "ok" to use and which is not. -- wobo