On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 6:48 PM, prakreet <vipinmatth...@gmail.com> wrote: > u suggested that we should accumulate money n buy patents.. a very > good thinking from my point of view.. heated debates r going on > regarding this.. > > > stallman is against anything concerning patents. he doesn't want > anything patented to go into linux. he had even called to boycott > llinux vendors acquiring patents.. including novell.. > > > Now i hav one question.. M$ is patenting everything they invent.. then > they use these patents against linux.. then why can't we do it against > them.. if we patent everything we invent then by 1-2 yrs we would have > a good patent pool to use againt M$.. the patents can be under a > license that says any software using an OSI approved license can use > the patent for free.. any other company should pay to use the > patents.. then it would be a great revenue source for us n after some > time we also could terrorize M$ saying that they r also infringing > some of our patents.. what's ur opinion..
Holding these patents are supposedly against the principles of FLOSS ... Regards Rajeev J Sebastian -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
