Re: [SLUG] Potential Obstacles for Open Source
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 00:28, Terry Collins wrote: > hmm, software patents hey. > hmm, "prior publication" might just be a major impact there. I think the problem is that the in general the patent system is broken. With patent offices doing superficial prior art searches it is being left to the courts to decide who really holds a legal patent. This means many open source developers will simply walk away from a project (or part thereof ) rather then invest the time and money required to see it grind through the court system to an uncertain outcome. Not to mention the damage the FUD of a looming court battle will do to an active community of OS developers and users. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Re: [SLUG] Potential Obstacles for Open Source
> I've noticed mozilla.org is also running the notice re software patents
> in europeas is gnome.org and probably any number of othersseems
> alarming
hmm, software patents hey.
hmm, "prior publication" might just be a major impact there.
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Re: [SLUG] Potential Obstacles for Open Source
Oscar Plameras wrote: I use to check this site and suddenly the info on the first page is somewhat concerning. http://www.mrtg.org How would you like to pay for trivial things that we do on the net and to which have been so accustomed for free, much more pay for software from the essential ones and others we can not do without and for free ? Has anyone got additional info on this ? Thanks in advance. Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html I've noticed mozilla.org is also running the notice re software patents in europeas is gnome.org and probably any number of othersseems alarming Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Potential Obstacles for Open Source
I use to check this site and suddenly the info on the first page is somewhat concerning. http://www.mrtg.org How would you like to pay for trivial things that we do on the net and to which have been so accustomed for free, much more pay for software from the essential ones and others we can not do without and for free ? Has anyone got additional info on this ? Thanks in advance. Oscar Plameras http://www.acay.com.au/~oscarp/disclaimer.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
