On Fri, 24 Apr 1998, Fred W. Noltie Jr. wrote:
'The greatest danger facing freeware today is software patents. When
This isn't exactly true. You can't simply declare a patent. There are a
number of issues that really prevent this from being a problem.
the open software model on technical
Here's some grist for the mill...
I ran into this at Linux Weekly News. Here's the quote:
'The greatest danger facing freeware today is software patents. When
the commercial software vendors realize that they can't compete with
the open software model on technical merits, they'll patent
'The greatest danger facing freeware today is software patents. When
the commercial software vendors realize that they can't compete with
the open software model on technical merits, they'll patent everything
they do and require licenses and NDA's for any interoperability.'
I have been
Re xanim:
The copyright/licensing/patenting/distribution/what-have-you information
provided by the xanim author (who is named Mark Podlipec and deserves to
be referred to by name), when assembled from its various locations and
chopped up so that only the relevant parts remain, reads as follows:
