I'm sorry for you, fellow american developers, for having to fight with all
of these "software patents" (or "patent the next stupid idea I have but I
have no idea of how to make it possible") crap.
Anyway I agree with parts of your points 1 (not talking here about patents)
and number 5 (wait to see what happens) and agree completely with Mark
Malewski last post ("software patents reduce innovation") and disagree
completely about if companies are evil or not for patenting these things:
they are, even Google, IBM and all of these:when the money income goes down,
the lawyers go up.
Greetings from a (nowadays) quite free country in Europe.
Impalah
2011/2/3 dz <d...@bitzend.net>
> Once again,
> a tempest in a teapot.
>
> I, for one, would remind people of some of the things we have learned
> about patent discussions on this list.
>
> 1. It is FAR more detrimental to the OpenSim movement if detailed patent
> information is posted here.. Reading those patents is a VERY bad idea for
> anyone who wants to contribute. DON'T DO IT
>
> 2. People who squawk about VALUABLE members of our small community are
> generally exposing their ignorance of the importance of having OpenSim based
> companies survive, flourish, and operate in a businesslike manner.
>
> 3. People who choose to freak out over the ruination of the OpenSim world
> BECAUSE of A patent POSSIBLY being granted.. have their head in the sand and
> should wake up. That's the way the software world WORKS NOW. If you wanna
> be PISSED OF about something and spend your efforts to FIX something
> important, get involved in requesting the US DOJ look at MicroSofts'
> lightly veiled approach to lead a consortium to purchase Novells LINUX
> patent portfolio...
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110120094059746<http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20110120094059746>
>
> 4. If you want to insure OpenSim has minimal patent liabilities, talk to
> the core developers who are willing to turn a blind eye and continue to
> believe MicroSoft when they say "Of course, you don't need to worry one
> NIT over the fact that .NET and C## are fully entangled into our
> proprietary technology and we sorta might wont ever sue anyone for using
> THAT....
>
> 5. There are MANY companies whos patents we DEPEND on. Many of the core
> developers over the history of this project are employed by companies who
> rank in the top 10 patents holders in the world. These companies are NOT
> evil BECAUSE they filed for patents. When the day comes that Kyle and the
> folks at Reaction Grid USE the patent to inhibit the development of
> OpenSim, THEN I will encourage you to get irate. Until then, I think
> Kyles' & Reaction Grids continuous and dedicated efforts to SERVE the
> opensim community, and do the right thing are what I would be spending my
> efforts posting about.
>
> D
>
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