Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?

2007-12-11 Thread Barry Margolin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andy Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And someone suggested > elsewhere on this list that big companies rarely sue each other because > they infringe patents all the time so avoid having a knockdown drag out > fight for no good reason? Or they establish blanket

Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?

2007-12-11 Thread Andy Baxter
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:07:58 +, Tim Smith wrote: > On 2007-12-11, Andy Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you replace 'companies' with 'large companies' (who have the resources >> to lobby government, and the money to pay lawyers to enforce their >> patents), it makes more sense. Individu

Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?

2007-12-11 Thread Andy Baxter
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:07:58 +, Tim Smith wrote: > On 2007-12-11, Andy Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you replace 'companies' with 'large companies' (who have the resources >> to lobby government, and the money to pay lawyers to enforce their >> patents), it makes more sense. Individu

Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?

2007-12-11 Thread Tim Smith
On 2007-12-11, Andy Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you replace 'companies' with 'large companies' (who have the resources > to lobby government, and the money to pay lawyers to enforce their > patents), it makes more sense. Individually some of them might want to get > out of it, but over t

Re: Troll naming

2007-12-11 Thread rjack
Andy Baxter wrote: On Wed, 05 Dec 2007 11:54:03 -0800, mike3 wrote: On Dec 5, 6:57 am, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Noah Slater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: On 05/12/2007, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think it is enough to feed the trolls with a reference. I don't

Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?

2007-12-11 Thread rjack
Andy Baxter wrote: On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:11:34 -0800, mike3 wrote: Hi. I saw this: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/smartsection/makepdf.php?itemid=79 Note: "It's not as if the various manufacturing companies don't have very good reasons for keeping the code and specifications closed. T