On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 04:07 +0100, twofourtysix wrote: > 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.
I can tell you one thing. If anyone removes a package that *I* maintain just because of software patents, then there will be hell to pay. I could give a damn about this issue, but removing choice from our users, especially without contacting the maintainer of the package, is grounds for disciplinary action in my eyes. Some of our users don't care about patents one way or another. Why should we have a vocal group out there forcing their position on another? Maybe we should start giving back all of our donations from AMD and NVidia. After all, they have lots of patents. This is really starting to get out of hand. Don't bother responding to my post, as I'm adding a procmail rule for this as we speak. It has nothing to do with Gentoo development, and doesn't belong on *this* list. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead/QA Manager Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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