Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2063 mails)

[M Harris <harrismh777@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:02, Pascal Bleser wrote:
> The problem are the software patents in the first place. Many of them
> are so vague that they apply to lots of pieces of software that have
> been written by people who never saw those patents and started from
> scratch.
	Which is *why* many of us are pontificating, "SOFTWARE PATENTS ARE EVIL".

	Depends on our definition of "obvious". If I start from scratch and write an 
algorithm capable of decoding an mp3 file I have done *nothing* different 
that writing an algorithm (text editor) that can decode a series of symbols 
(text) for displaying on a screen.  One is called obvious and the other is 
called patentable... hogwash. The mp3 standard should not have a patent, nor 
should there be any licensing issues with *any* software based mp3 player.

	Software patents must die... end of story. (We have to change this folks)




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M Harris     <><
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