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Red Hat and software patentsRed Hat and software patentsPosted Jun 6, 2002 8:12 UTC (Thu) by DeletedUser771 ((unknown), #771)Parent article: Red Hat and software patents Is it just me, or has the shine on the Open Source community's idealism tarnished over the last 18 months or so? Call me a fatalist, but every day I see another sign of the decline - more and more bitter, ignorant attacks on RMS (our collective conscience), more and more silly patents on free software (RTLinux, RedHat), more and more singly-trivial-but-collectively-horrifying setbacks to Free Software (the whole Bitkeeper travesty, Linus' increasingly laissez-faire attitude to Free Software, etc.). I suspect that all this has something to do with the influx of "new blood" the community has had over the last couple of years. As we drift towards the mainstream, the core principles of our community are eroding. What happened to Slashdot, is happening everywhere - soon enough the 90% of ignorant swine will dominate, and the sensible few will be drowned in the noise. If we don't defend what we have, we are sure to lose it...
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