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John Terpstra on Challenges to Free Software

Posted by michael on from the you-want-to-fight dept.

Telex4 writes "Anyone who has read John Terpstra's article on Groklaw about Intellectual Property (IP) rights will be interested to read an interview I did recently with John at KDE's World Summit. We talked about what IP means to the free software community, how we can drive GNU/Linux adoption, and how he thinks the IT market will change in coming years. He gives us a lot to think about in terms of what more we should be doing."

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  1. There is really only ONE challenge to free softwar by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny


    Software that pays me to use it. Other than that, I'll stick with the free stuff.

  2. The First Person by pete-classic · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first person who says OSS when he means FS in this thread gets my metaphorical foot up his avatar ass.

    -Peter

    1. Re:The First Person by rozz · · Score: 4, Funny

      and the second only gets modded as "redundant" ? ... not fair

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    2. Re:The First Person by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Um, welcome to /. RMS?

  3. Re:IP out of hand by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How is IP out of hand? I love the royalties I get from suing people who abuse my patent that "provides a method for AC to post messages on the Internet about the most ridiculous example of IP infringement."

    My Rolls Royce can be more expensive than your Toyota.

  4. Re:Warez by smclean · · Score: 2, Funny
    I hope you don't have any FOSS apps on your windows machine. If you do, whoever got you to pay for them scammed you.

    Sorry, couldn't resist. This is Slashdot, after all.

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  5. Re:The Passing of Ideas by MarsDefenseMinister · · Score: 2, Funny

    Stop it with the virii. It's virusen

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    No weapon in the arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men.-Ronald Reagan
  6. Re:Warez by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > "Seriously, what percentage of the apps on your Windows machine did you pay for..."

    > 100%.

    +1 Funny