> -----Original Message----- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Armin Faltl > Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:52 PM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem > > I'm here only for a bit over a week, got a lot of help and > try to contribute something. > In my opinion, even if you were bashing gEDA or parts of it, > this would be still your right, while probably no good place. > What sounds like bashing in the ears of some contains > constructive criticisim in the ears of others maybe. > > I didn't say anything about the patent thing yet. Well, I > hold some patents, not in software. > Studies show, that 80% of all technical knowledge openly > available is described in patents only, no books no > publications etc. A personal guess of mine is, that a > similiar number of patents is expired already. Ignoring that > knowledge because of a weird sense of political correctnes... > There are even cases of patents that were acquired to make > them open source ;-) There is hardly a better protection > imaginable for an OS-implementation than an expired patent.
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