Re: It's all context

2007-06-28 Thread John Hasler
andy writes: > Wouldn't it be > a) cheaper > b) more in the spirit of free software > c) more likely to succeed > just to register any code that you consider might constitute a patent > with a public notary, so that at a later date it can be used as evidence > that any patent which someone later

Re: It's all context

2007-06-28 Thread Andy Baxter
On Wed, 06 Jun 2007 15:56:08 -0500, rjack wrote: > There is no magic bullet to fight Microsoft's patent hegemony except > other independently obtained software process patents. Let the education > process begin for open source programmers. The dream of the GPL freeing > programmers to do what t

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- CRN: "GPL 3 Set To Go Live"

2007-06-28 Thread Alexander Terekhov
http://www.crn.com/software/21154 - GPL 3 Set To Go Live By Stacy Cowley, CRN 4:51 PM EDT Mi. Jun. 27, 2007 A multiyear process to draft a successor to the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2, the most widely used open-source software license, will end this week, as the GPL