On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:43:45AM -0500, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote:
The fact that your country isn't the ONLY one on Earth and that each one has it's own laws?
This is irrelevant. If you want to disagree, name one country where the laws allow a patent holder to require a license from those who distribute inventions where the patent doesn't apply.
And Debian isn't a company or corporation. Therefore Debian has less to worry about by doing so. Novell is a business, they have to actually worry about these types of things.
There are many corporations who distribute Debian or derivatives and work on their creation. They are businesses. They have to worry about those things just as much as Novell does. Some example ones are Progeny and Canonical. Just because you don't know about them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I do know about them, but you see, that's not the problem. Even a guy from RedHat asked you to confirm that and I don't see MP3s in Fedora today. The fact remains, DEBIAN IS NOT A BUSINESS. Novell, is.
I bet I could find news reports saying they found intelligent life once at a Republican convention. Doesn't make it true.
Yes, whatever.
I would invite others to actually read the article; it does include a statement by Thomson explaining their policy.
Alejo. http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/
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