On Wednesday 08 November 2006 22:29, JJ Gitties wrote:
Anders. I resent that. My new sig is proudly plagarized from a user who commented on the recent Dvorak article that I read today. It may be that both of them have no clue what they are talking about, but I liked the comment and it make me chuckle.
It's so comic that the community - so quick to condemn FUD in others - are really the worst FUD makers.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2052320,00.asp
and the user was * rickst29* and his comment was here near the bottom...
http://discuss.pcmag.com/forums/1004349517/ShowPost.aspx
I will be paying *rickst29 *and he will be paying me royalties for this bit of IP.
Funny. But if you had taken the trouble to read things for yourself - as opposed to just repeating ill-informed things from others - you would have known that no one is paying anyone IP royalties If - and it's a huge if - there is ever anything found that violates a patent in GPLed code, no one has a license to use it. The code will be rewritten or pulled. What's being paid for is not having to go to court for someone else's mistake The FUD about patent problems in linux was spread by others (notably the OSRM). Novell's stand is that there are no patent problems in GPL code, but customers aren't satisfied that easily