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How can you name it "free software" then?How can you name it "free software" then?Posted Mar 13, 2008 16:04 UTC (Thu) by gabba (guest, #31909)In reply to: How can you name it "free software" then? by khim Parent article: SFLC: Do not rely on Microsoft's Open Specification Promise
The purpose of Microsoft's OSP is to allow free implementations of the covered specifications, not to fix the problem of software patents. While it might be nice to hope that Microsoft would agree to some backdoor means to fix the patent problem for free software in regards to Microsoft patents, such a hope is not realistic. The best one can hope for is a license for code that implements the covered specifications, while it is covering them. Well, I guess you can hope for anything you like.
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How can you name it "free software" then? Posted Mar 14, 2008 19:54 UTC (Fri) by robilad (subscriber, #27163) [Link] The best one can do is to make Microsoft irrelevant through better software. The second best one can do is to turn the dismantling of Microsoft into a lucrative business for legal and financing companies globally, using the interesting quirks of the global intellectual property market for a concentrated attack on them to DOS their legal defense capacity, turning Microsoft into a larger copy of SCO. They don't perform well in panic mode. ;)
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