On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 04:22, Andrew Ho wrote: > When I read this, I am reminded of the discussion between Matias and > myself a couple of days ago. Only Bradley Kuhn (Free Software Foundation) > said "Yes!" so much better: > > http://www.nwfusion.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=840&docid=7922 > > Chris Sontag (SCO) said "No!" but I don't think it is quite fair to > put Matias and Chris into the same category :-).
A debate on whether software and algorithm patents are good for the software industry would also be interesting - perhaps between: a) the Free Software Foundation, who are implacably and justifiably opposed to software and algorithm patents on the basis that they stifle innovation (and otherwise further improverish the impoverished), or the league for Programming Freedom (see http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html) and b) IBM, who appear to be enthusiastic supports of certain GPLed products like Linux, but also enthusiastic supporters of the software patents, or at least enthusiastic participants in the software and algorithm patenting game. Sanity has prevailed on this issue in Europe, at least temporarily (see http://slashdot.org/articles/03/10/18/1628217.shtml?tid=155&tid=99 ). -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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