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Memory management and patentsMemory management and patentsPosted Aug 15, 2002 7:48 UTC (Thu) by leandro (guest, #1460)Parent article: Memory management and patents
It would be very interesting if patents turned the Linux kernel – or even the whole GNU system – horribly expensive and virtually proprietary in the US, and perhaps NAFTA and EU areas too, while still dirty cheap and free in South America, Asia and Africa. That could help complete the takeover of the First World by the Third World, which has already been supplying the population deficit of the hedonistic West. Now we would supply technology too. Are the barbarians at the gates yet?
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Memory management and patents Posted Aug 15, 2002 8:16 UTC (Thu) by drooypcom (guest, #3272) [Link] "That could help complete the takeover of the First World by the Third World, which has already been supplying the population deficit of the hedonistic West. Now we would supply technology too."Actually I dont think this would work, at least for the third world. Because sure you could develop and use the Free Linux in the third world, but you could not sell it. In the third world because nobody has any money, in the first world because of the patents. But! This could work for the "second world", in which I include good part of Asia, because there you can sell... That the same old story: the middle class can take over the upper class, become the upper class and some times later the former upper class now middle class can take over the upper class again, in an endless cycle (see Orwell's 1984) but the lower class, the really poor peoples, they cant do that (as a class, but there is still hope for individuals to climb the socila ladder)
Memory management and patents Posted Aug 16, 2002 17:13 UTC (Fri) by cekim (guest, #3295) [Link] Rather than an ongoing class struggle, we are more likely to enter anIP cold war built on the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction: "I won't sue you over your infringement of my red patent if you won't Alas, the Green patent was GPL'd so no one gets to color TV... I am all for IP in principle, but something has to give in the US as I am expecting a patent on "Human Oxygen Intake" any day now...
Memory management and patents Posted Aug 12, 2003 1:42 UTC (Tue) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link] > I am all for IP in principle So you are all for a propaganda device? Intellectual property doesn't exist... neither copyrights nor patents are property, but a state concession of an artificial monopoly.
Memory management and patents Posted Oct 4, 2002 10:32 UTC (Fri) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link] > you could develop and use the Free Linux in the third world, but you could not sell it But that is the point. It is free software, no need to sell. You just operate it, do services, learn, whatever. Take a scrap [34]86 and run you backyard business on it.
Memory management and patents Posted Aug 12, 2003 1:45 UTC (Tue) by leandro (guest, #1460) [Link] > some times later the former upper class now middle class can take over the upper class again, in an endless cycle (see Orwell's 1984) What has 1984 to do with this cycle? It is precisely about a distopic future where society is fossilized by "the party"
Memory management and patents Posted Aug 23, 2002 22:11 UTC (Fri) by josmala (guest, #3401) [Link] IF anyone in hardware industry would DARE to sue linux kernel developers for their software patents the result would probably hurt them a LOT more than if they would of simply given up on their patents.Consider if your company would be considered the great evil by linux developers, AND amound of bad PRESS they would definitely get, there would probably be EVERY possible bad aspect of the company coming publicly in technical world. Their sales figures would definitely drop within few months by figure by loosing their image. The stain that they would get in their image would be such that no amount of marketing money could fix it. And if the company it self would use linux they definitely wouldn't do it since they might loose some valued employees to other companies, and hiring when next upturn comes would become harder. If the suing company would be like M$ they would probably get extra monopoly investigations and it would be a risk for them too. What about other software companies. Well if they HOPE to sell their products in Linux market some time they had damaged their reputation and that hurts. Also they might find them self in trouble with their current customers. And suddenly have harder time to find good programmers. To simply put NO ONE is goint to use their patents for linux kernel, they got too much LOOSE if they would even try it. Most wouldn't consider much of a damage if linux kernel would use the algorithm they have patented. Only reason they could use that would be that someone in linux industry would sue them over patent, and then they would deny the other company for using kernel versions that use their patents. [Consider if redhat would sue SGI with some software patent, SGI could tell redhat NOT TO sell/use kernel version 2.6 which would incorporate their patents, as a counter suit, or more easily, show RH that they could sue them with that, and let them decide weather stop shipping any products that use the patents or withdraw their case, easy choise don't you think, SGI could use the patent just to settle a court case with no one outside case to ever know what really happened.]
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