Hello All,
On the subject in the subject line - Excluding free software from
patentability - it concerns me that there is a emphasis on software.
As demonstrated at LCA2012 there seems to be increasing interest in
open hardware, and I think hardware has exactly the same issues as
software does reg
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> The goal of free software is freedom for people who *use* software. To
> claim that the ability to restrict other people with proprietary software
> is a "freedom" is twisted logic indeed.
>
But that is a freedom. This comes to the double-edged idea that freedom
cannot be absolute: if I have a
On 13/02/12 12:45, Matt Giuca wrote:
Having a shorter copyright term, but keeping the long term for free
software would mean that the above clause is no longer true. In this world,
I would have certain freedoms with proprietary software that I would not
have with GPL software. For example, I woul
On 12/02/12 12:05, Matt Giuca wrote:
I thought that there was a really great idea from a commenter at the end
of your talk whereby free software would be considered by law 'in the
public interest' and becomes except from applying to patent lawsuits at all.
Not only would this meet our goals of b
