[Mageia-dev] Mirror layout

Sat Dec 11 07:30:06 CET 2010

On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 6:07 AM, andre999 <andr55 at laposte.net> wrote:
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+> Don't forget, virtually all software, in some respect, can be considered
+> subject to patent claims.
+> Microsoft has a patent on some charactistic necessarily used by all
+> spreadsheets.  Including Visicalc, which predates anything Microsoft
+> produced.
+> (I forget the details, something ridiculously simple.)
+> It is obviously unenforceable; no court would endorse it.
+>
+> The Linux kernel is supposedly subject to many patents.
+> So if you want to avoid all potential software patent claims, you should
+> probably avoid Linux.
+>
+>
+If every developer on this world who writes open source software would care
+about such patents, than nobody would be able to program because you have to
+fear that a big company like Microsoft will have a patent on some part of
+code. But as you mentioned in previous posts, only such people with lots of
+money will have problems.
+
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+
+-- 
+Mit freundlichen Grüßen
+
+Greetings
+
+Daniel Kreuter
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