Although I don't know all the details on how this works, I know patents are
horrible thing that should not exist, and people use them in ways that should
never be allowed. I dearly hope Opensim will never have to face such dangers,
and that it will always stay clear of these things. I guess hoping is the best
we can do, if nothing can be done to actively secure it.
Anyway Diva, that's a very nice and correct post, and hopefully people will
listen do that. But imho, as long as any company has a possibility to harm
Opensim, the project is unsafe. I wonder if the laws allow code owners to
forbid anyone from placing patents on anything. After all, the code belongs to
the devs, and no one should be able to invade it and put "rules" on Opensim
without their permission. Of course other libs it uses aren't the case, if I am
correct.
> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 09:15:05 -0800
> From: d...@metaverseink.com
> To: opensim-us...@lists.berlios.de; opensim-dev@lists.berlios.de
> Subject: [Opensim-dev] personal plea on patents
>
> In the light of recent events, I want to make this plea explicit and
> widely distributed:
> http://www.metaverseink.com/blog/?p=30
>
> No need to panic, the project is not in danger. But it became clear to
> me that we need to raise awareness of this issue, so that people in this
> community stop and think before they file patents to please investors
> and managers.
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