On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:43:45AM -0500, Alejandro Forero Cuervo wrote: > > The fact that your country isn't the ONLY one on Earth and that each one > > has it's own laws? > > This is irrelevant. If you want to disagree, name one country where > the laws allow a patent holder to require a license from those who > distribute inventions where the patent doesn't apply. > > > And Debian isn't a company or corporation. Therefore Debian has less > > to worry about by doing so. Novell is a business, they have to > > actually worry about these types of things. > > There are many corporations who distribute Debian or derivatives and > work on their creation. They are businesses. They have to worry > about those things just as much as Novell does. Some example ones are > Progeny and Canonical. Just because you don't know about them doesn't > mean they don't exist.
I do know about them, but you see, that's not the problem. Even a guy from RedHat asked you to confirm that and I don't see MP3s in Fedora today. The fact remains, DEBIAN IS NOT A BUSINESS. Novell, is. > > > > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/30321 > > > > I bet I could find news reports saying they found intelligent life once at > > a Republican convention. Doesn't make it true. > > Yes, whatever. > > I would invite others to actually read the article; it does include a > statement by Thomson explaining their policy. > > Alejo. > http://azul.freaks-unidos.net/ > > ---=( Comunidad de Usuarios de Software Libre en Colombia )=--- > ---=( http://bachue.com/colibri )=--=( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )=--- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
