On Sunday 19 November 2006 01:18, M. Fioretti wrote:
> If you were right (both in theory and in practice), Stallman and the
> FSF would not spend half their time worldwide to scream against sw
> patents. The reasons they do is exactly because they have effects like
> the ones I have described.
No... and maybe...
The spend *most* of their time fighting sw patents... mostly because
they
don't want the EU to have the same lame patent system the US suffers with...
true story.
You counter point proves my point precisely... Stallman and the FSF
(and
thousands of others) have made sure that the GPL core code (kernel, gcc, *nix
util packages, etc) are clean. If there were patented algorithms in the (open
source, as in everybody can read it !! ) kernel ( or FSF core ) then it
would have surfaced long ago... SCO would have won... and M$ and *UNIX* would
have driven a wooden stake through Stallman's heart long ago.... the fact
is... the code is clean. (end of story) Anything other than that is pure
FUD, pure and simple.
No... about the only patented innovation that M$ can claim from the
Suse
distro at this point is that the little grean lizzard face at the lower left
hand corner of my desktop behaves amazingly like the M$ Start button...
ooops. But is that a Suse snafu, or KDE?
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M Harris <><
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