I think the problem can only be solved by giving the owner/author of a patent an incentive exhaustively research prior art. It could be in the form that if an court finds that there is prior art to a patent and the author/owner knew or should have known of it then all proceeds from the patent plus say 50% go to the owner of the prior art IP.
the binaries are build by volunteers for their respective platforms and you see a glibc2.1 binary because that is what the volunteer in question (me) happens to have on his machine. If you wait a little bit the other developers will get around and produce the other Linux versions as well, including the glibc2 == glibc2.0.x version.
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Lol, people citing wikipedia to argue that one should not cite wikipedia. Can it get any better?
no problem ;-)
I think the problem can only be solved by giving the owner/author of a patent an incentive exhaustively research prior art. It could be in the form that if an court finds that there is prior art to a patent and the author/owner knew or should have known of it then all proceeds from the patent plus say 50% go to the owner of the prior art IP.
I think the delivery of sources and the conditions
of the provided warranty are separate issues.
The warranty conditions could state that
bug reports are only accepted if the bug
can be reproduced on an unmodified product.
Steffen
Well my RealPlayer can play it. My version
is called RealPlayer(tm) (LINUX)
Version 5.0 Gold
5.0.0.45
Hope this helps
Steffen
I have submitted a gnulib1 and a gnulibc1-static
version yesterday. Someone else will make
tar-files from them make them available.
Steffen
Hello,
the binaries are build by volunteers for their
respective platforms and you see a glibc2.1
binary because that is what the volunteer
in question (me) happens to have on his machine.
If you wait a little bit the other developers
will get around and produce the other Linux versions as well, including the glibc2 == glibc2.0.x version.
Steffen