Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 12, 2006 10:51 PM
Pathetic. Now who is spreading FUD? If you don't like it move on and keep your @#$%@ comments to yourself. If people in the FLOSS community were really concerned about not supporting distributions that crossed the business line then Debian would be in first place on Distrowatch with a lead that left everyone with 1% to divide...
Get over it. Patents will never go away. and they shouldn't... only the granting of patents to companies that extort from others where prior art / effort exists.
The patent system does need to be fixed, but if YOU ever wanted to protect your work (wether for yourself or others) you would need to use the patent system. The idealist here do not understand that the most that can occur is a compromise, not a defeat. Get real...
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 12, 2006 10:51 PMGet over it. Patents will never go away. and they shouldn't... only the granting of patents to companies that extort from others where prior art / effort exists.
The patent system does need to be fixed, but if YOU ever wanted to protect your work (wether for yourself or others) you would need to use the patent system. The idealist here do not understand that the most that can occur is a compromise, not a defeat. Get real...
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