If someone removes something that belongs to me, software patents or not, I'll
be asking for removal of (at the very least) their cvs access. If not, I'll be
asking for their total removal from the project. You can have all the views you
want on the world. I do. This is a technical project, not your own personal soap
boxes.

--Iggy

twofourtysix wrote:
> I applaud all those people on the Planet who are posting
> anti-software-patent banners in their blogs. It's good to see yet
> another major software project taking a stance.
> 
> Are these people prepared to back up their views by removing from the
> tree all those ebuilds for software made by companies who make heavy
> use of software patents? That would be far more effective, and may
> even encourage a few mainstream tech news sources to stop ignoring the
> issue. I can think of quite a few software-patent friendly companies
> who are currently gaining significant good PR from being 'supported'
> by Gentoo.
> 
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