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Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?


From: mike3
Subject: Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?
Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2007 18:15:41 -0800 (PST)
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On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, mike3 <mike4...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I saw this:
>
> http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/smartsection/makepdf.php?itemid=79
>
> Note:
>
> "It's not as if the various manufacturing companies don't have very
> good reasons for keeping the code
> and specifications closed. They all infringe on each other's patents,
> however none of this can be
> proved without the various plans. Releasing anything is a big risk,
> not necessarily a certain one,
> since they could countersue for whatever the opponent infringes, but a
> possible problem
> nevertheless."
>
> So if there were no software patents, there'd be no more to sue over,
> and hence the "very good reasons" for (eternally!) hiding the source
> code would evaporate like mist in the heat of the day. Poof, like
> magic, they'd be gone! And suddenly there would be no problem with
> releasing software as Free and we'd finally have FREEDOM on the PC!!!!
>
> Ain't it great? Get rid of software patenting!
>
> But alas the companies don't want that, they *want* patents on their
> software...

OK, maybe the title was a little off. All software would not
*automatically*
become Free, the companies would still have to decide that on their
own, but it would knock out one of the biggest legs the non-Free
theory of software development and licensing stands on.


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