On Sunday 19 November 2006 01:18, M. Fioretti wrote:
If you were right (both in theory and in practice), Stallman and the FSF would not spend half their time worldwide to scream against sw patents. The reasons they do is exactly because they have effects like the ones I have described. No... and maybe...
The spend *most* of their time fighting sw patents... mostly because they don't want the EU to have the same lame patent system the US suffers with... true story. You counter point proves my point precisely... Stallman and the FSF (and thousands of others) have made sure that the GPL core code (kernel, gcc, *nix util packages, etc) are clean. If there were patented algorithms in the (open source, as in everybody can read it !! ) kernel ( or FSF core ) then it would have surfaced long ago... SCO would have won... and M$ and *UNIX* would have driven a wooden stake through Stallman's heart long ago.... the fact is... the code is clean. (end of story) Anything other than that is pure FUD, pure and simple. No... about the only patented innovation that M$ can claim from the Suse distro at this point is that the little grean lizzard face at the lower left hand corner of my desktop behaves amazingly like the M$ Start button... ooops. But is that a Suse snafu, or KDE? -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org