Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 31, 2005 11:13 PM
The ideal is, of course, to make software patents illegal. This will not happen, at least in the U.S. The alternative is to be sure that our free software does not infringe any patents. IBM's move is a good start, but it should be considered only a temporary measure until any infringing code can be rewritten to remove patented methods. I hope this trend does not encourage developers to use patented methods because they are covered, for now. Any "infringing" code, even if IBM says its OK, should be considered "non-free".
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 31, 2005 11:13 PM#