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Stallman Unimpressed by Nokia Patent Pledge

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is running a commentary by Richard Stallman on the recent PR blitz by Nokia concerning their promise not to enforce patent claims against the Linux kernel project. Stallman's take? "In effect, Nokia is lobbying the European Union to give Nokia and many others a new kind of weapon to shoot at software authors and users with--and telling the legislators, 'Don't worry, it's safe to let private armies carry these guns, because we promise that our gunmen won't shoot anyone in that building.'""

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  1. USA by raoul666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    'Don't worry, it's safe to let private armies carry these guns, because we promise that our gunmen won't shoot anyone in that building.'

    Isn't this basically what the US says about those "minutemen" guarding the southern border?

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  2. Re:In a public Nokia statement... by QCompson · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yes, watch out when the US picks up that big stick, because someone's going to get it; just like what happened to Bin Laden... Oh wait, nevermind.

  3. Re:Yeah.. by Cecil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    All that stuff definitely won't help, but it will have very little to do with whether a World War 3 ever breaks out. If it ever happens, I think it's much more likely that the trigger will be something in the other hemisphere of the world. We've got the middle east, with countries like Israel/Syria/Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Iraq. Israel almost certainly has nukes, Iran could theoretically have some soon also if they felt the need to. Not far from there we've also got Pakistan and India, both heavily militarized and relatively poor nations with nuclear weapons and an ongoing border conflict. Then we can arch around through the various breakaway countries that Russia feels still belong to them, and then peek into China - the world's largest developing economy, tremendous natural resources, and the world's largest military too. Both Japan and Taiwan seem to be alternately getting on China's nerves and having their toes stepped on by China right now. And last but certainly not least we'll complete our eastern hemisphere tour with North Korea.

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