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Migration out of USMigration out of USPosted Dec 30, 2003 0:14 UTC (Tue) by error27 (subscriber, #8346)In reply to: Migration out of US by giraffedata Parent article: Use of patented code in the kernel I really meant that my software doesn't hurt anyone in a more direct way. For example, releasing viruses and worms should obviously be illegal. To me it's not so much a hobby vs income type thing but a free speech issue. Calling something a hobby just trivializes it. Is writing GCC a hobby for RMS? Even ignoring the free speech issues and assuming that I just wrote software as a hobby, the patent system is still very broken. I can't patent anything as a hobby because that would be too expensive and I don't make money as a hobbiest. The patent system only hurts me and doesn't offer me anything in return. In one case there was a company that patented extensions to Free Software which I have contributed to. They used it internally without releasing the source. But to me, the issues of Free Speech and thought are what matter most.
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