On Sat, 11 Dec 2010, Michael scherer wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 02:26:32PM -0500, andre999 wrote: > > It doesn't seem that any individual user has been pursued for using > > unauthorised patent-affected software. > > So using patent-affected software is a non-issue for users. > > (Unless they choose to avoid such software, of course.) > > We should not only take care of individual users, companies can also use > a linux distribution. See how debian is used in many embedded product, or > Fedora > for that matter.
For companies making embedded products, I think they need to carefully select the software they include in their product. But I don't think having patented software available on mirrors is a problem, if they are not installed on the product they are selling.