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Those are only the beginning

Those are only the beginning

Posted May 15, 2007 14:57 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: by mmarq
Parent article: Microsoft takes on the free world (CNN)

True, but think about our poor colleagues in the US. Why do they have to pay a Microsoft tax when the brave open world has worked out its own operating system from the bottom up?

Besides, after the US take it for granted that software patents are good, and "violating" them is bad, then you can bet it will take little time to have them reenacted here in Europe. We should help strike evil things down at the roots.


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Those are only the beginning

Posted May 17, 2007 14:44 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

I've supported "no" softwware patents in Europe for almost a decade.

But another thought is that if OSS is so proficient, an organization to build a vast and good portfolio of patents, prior-art, trivialitys... isnt either a bad idea.

OSS can defeat 'them' at their own game.

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