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Patents and User Protection In OSS
missing_myself writes "Linux.com has nice summary on 'How major distributions are dealing with potential violations of patents and trademarks, cryptography, packaging proprietary software and consequential damages' from Bruce Byfield (a journalist from OSTG)." From the article: "Slowly, some commercial distributions are taking a different route. In the last few years, indemnification has become an increasingly important issue in FOSS communities, largely because of the SCO-IBM case. Claiming ownership of Unix, SCO alleges that IBM has allowed copyrighted code to pass from System V Unix to GNU/Linux. Although no evidence has been released and the trial is not scheduled until February 26, 2007, the issues in the case have made both commercial and community FOSS participants reevaluate their practices."
I hope all you dirty fuckin nerds get a bar of soap for christmas.
Fuckin nerds.
The following replies are posted by unwashed nerds.
Wait, is /. for protecting intellectual property or against it, I'm confused!
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And up until September 11, 2001, terrorists flying jets into New York skyscrapers was only theoretical.
hey, didn't you hear, we planted bombs in the buildings. the planes were merely for effect. and i don't think that there were terrorists flying those aircraft. they were "freedom fighters" attacking american imperialism and hegemony. actualyl they were plants paid for by the CIA. by the way, do you enjoy your $.50 a gallon gas that we went to war for?