Software patents and FreeBSD

2005-07-08 Thread R. Tyler Ballance
Howdy, i'll be meeting tuesday with staffers for my congressman (since he's still in D.C.) to discuss software patents and the "evil" behind them. I've got a new perspective on the troubles they can cause given my Summer of Code project which is lice

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:18:34PM +, Jens Rehsack wrote: > Todd Stephens wrote: > But if any algorithm used in bsd will be patented in europe and > the patent became valid, they may have a problem either. I don't know about Europe, but if the algorithm existed in *BSD prior to the patent, th

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Jens Rehsack
Todd Stephens wrote: On Friday 12 September 2003 06:05 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: I think he was talking about putting a protest on the freebsd website, like some linux distributions have done (eg http://www.debian.org) This would be free, wouldn't it ? A large part of the reason of why I switch

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Todd Stephens
On Friday 12 September 2003 06:05 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: > I think he was talking about putting a protest on the freebsd > website, like some linux distributions have done (eg > http://www.debian.org) This would be free, wouldn't it ? A large part of the reason of why I switched to FreeBSD fro

Re: Software patents

2003-09-12 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 11:58:23PM -0700, Kris Kennaway typed: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:53:37AM +0200, Mickael Suzenne wrote: > > Hi the team ! > > > > I was wondering why you haven't placed any advert to protest against > > software patents european direc

Re: Software patents

2003-09-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 08:53:37AM +0200, Mickael Suzenne wrote: > Hi the team ! > > I was wondering why you haven't placed any advert to protest against > software patents european directive ? Nor you, neither Net team, neither > Open tean ... Is this because you stand in

Software patents

2003-09-11 Thread Mickael Suzenne
Hi the team ! I was wondering why you haven't placed any advert to protest against software patents european directive ? Nor you, neither Net team, neither Open tean ... Is this because you stand in US and the europeans evolution don't mind ? (I hope and then I think no, but so ... w

European software patents law !!!

2003-08-28 Thread Alin-Adrian Anton
http://petition.eurolinux.org/ sign the petition against the new patents law. find more about this law at http://swpat.ffii.org/ and mirror their website (for load purposes). close your website as did www.gimp.org and protest with banners, and in any other way. God bless the virus industry. Yo