Re: KDE violates IBM patent

Robert Osfield wrote: if (caps_lock_on) { beep(0.5); printf(Your caps lock is on.\n); } So this infringes on a IBM patent. great I hope IBM employees are thrilled about working for such an innovative and forward looking company. I am not trying to defend IBM or this

Re: KDE violates IBM patent

Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote: I wrote a fast, rather tongue-in-cheek story about this. The few quotes used were with permission: http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/06/11/179255 Good article! Thanks for the feedback! regards, Randy Kramer -- license-discuss archive is at

Re: The regrettable use of all in Section 7 of the GPL

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But the GPL does say: if one person cannot receive and redistribute, no one can, at least within a single country. I didn't see anyone else respond to this -- did I miss something? Is this your reference? (from Version 2, June 1991) quote 8. If the distribution

Re: The Copyright Act preempts the GPL

Alexander Terekhov scripsit: To me, compilers (and tools like http://world.altavista.com) do nothing but transliteration, not translation in the legal sense. I may be wrong, of course. I may be off the mark, but to me, part of the implied question (perhaps in an earlier post?) is whether