Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 16, 2006 10:13 AM
I would say it could be compared to protecting Free Software with CCTV cameras. You can either make them obvious and tell everyone where they are in the hope that an offense won't be committed (but this implies telling people which areas are not protected, thus directing actions to unprotected areas), or you can keep them hidden and only release the tapes in court, which should stop most offenses but would not reduce the number in the short term.
As far as new software patents are concerned, I agree that it is important to stop any getting through. The OSDL's initiative does nothing to stop software patents, it only "fixes" the current implementation. Kind of reminds me of Mr Stallman's comments on Open Source DRM, that Open Source advocates itself as an efficient development model whilst DRM is the one thing that should remain bug-filled and broken.
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Re:I wanna do 'good' things ..
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 16, 2006 10:13 AMAs far as new software patents are concerned, I agree that it is important to stop any getting through. The OSDL's initiative does nothing to stop software patents, it only "fixes" the current implementation. Kind of reminds me of Mr Stallman's comments on Open Source DRM, that Open Source advocates itself as an efficient development model whilst DRM is the one thing that should remain bug-filled and broken.
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