Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: large page patch (fwd) (fwd) | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 13 Aug 2002 16:06:26 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 09:40, Rob Landley wrote: > Unfortunately, the maintainer of the GPL is Stallman, so he's the logical guy > to spearhead a "GPL patent pool" project, but any time anybody mentions the > phrase "intellectual property" to him he goes off on a tangent about how you > shouldn't call anything "intellectual property", so how can you have a > discussion about it, and nothing ever gets done. It's FRUSTRATING to see > somebody with such brilliant ideas hamstrung not just by idealism, but > PEDANTIC idealism. >
Richard isnt daft on this one. The FSF does not have the 30 million dollars needed to fight a *single* US patent lawsuit. The problem also reflects back on things like Debian, because Debian certainly cannot afford to play the patent game either.
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