Bless John Carmack. He's a fantastic example for the games industry. Of
course, he doesn't develop free software, but once his technology is
reasonably old that there is no further commercial value, he kicks it into
GPL mode and breathes a whole new life into it. I can't really ask for more
than
2. Even though Patentology is correct in pointing that the GPL
...
Plus, patents != copyright, just because they share the IP umbrella.
For the most part it should be pretty trivial for an individual to not
violate copyright when writing software, but it can be impossible to
even know if
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Tim Cuthbertson t...@gfxmonk.net wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Les Kitchen l...@csse.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
...
2. Even though Patentology is correct in pointing that the GPL
(and copyleft) technically relies on copyright law, he omits
to
On Tue, 22 May 2012, Matt Giuca matt.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
I can never quite justify why I think software deserves a special exemption
from the patent system. I think what it comes down to is that *so very very
little* of what we invent is actually non-obvious. I don't wish to deride
software
Well said, Matt.
On May 22, 2012 10:37 PM, Matt Giuca matt.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
[…] If some guy from Australia
hadn't invented a way of determining when a machine is significantly
changed, chances are pretty bloody high that someone at Microsoft would
have.
John Carmack has said something
On 22 May 2012 22:37, Matt Giuca matt.gi...@gmail.com wrote:
From what I know about this Ric Richardson, he sounds like a huge patent
troll. I may have my facts wrong, so correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm under
the understanding that he came up with a DRM system for detecting when
software
http://blog.patentology.com.au/2012/05/bickering-about-software-patents-misses.html
Yeah. Even though Patentology seems to come out in favor of
(software) patents, he seems at least to give a sane account of
the contending sides -- considering that being a patent attorney
it's clear on which
4. I also noticed a link to his commentary from early this on
s/from early this on/from early this year on/
___
Free-software-melb mailing list
Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au
One could accuse them of intellectual cowardice. Or at the very least,
engaging in a campaign of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
Yeah, Lev, on second reading it does seems to smell more like
FUD.
-- Smiles, Les.
___
Free-software-melb mailing list
