For all it takes, I have a simillar one, only in a far smaller company. Difference is that you're assuming that we'll (or Cisco for this matter) be assumed guilty until us/Cisco can prove inocence, when, in fact, the only thing it's needed to do is to proove that they didn't proove we're guilty.
Touché
Or, in other words, Mr. Barr (and Cisco) are against Software Patents, but are chicken enough to do something they are against, that it, issuing for sotware patents.
With regard to patents, in particular, no one *ever* has an obligation to refrain from making, using or selling technology that *may* practice patent claims solely because someone somewhere has taken a patent, claims to have a patent, or even publishes a license. Only the demand that you in particular take a license or cease infringing triggers theoretical liability under US patent law. Whether there can be liability for damages for the period before such notification is another question, legitimately of importance to those who commercially distribute free software, but not ordinarily of significance to those who develop only, or who distribute non-commercially.
In other words, you can code something using the patented "technology" (they aren't even patenting that, only their share part of some ideas they had to fix a protocol!) until Cisco wants to stop it.
Moreover, patents are not global, only local. To say that we cannot *develop* under GPL because a patent exists in country X, and a license has been published there to which those making, using, or selling in country X *might* be asked to subscribe would go much too far. That situation certainly does not prevent development elsewhere, and distribution under GPL can certainly proceed."
FreeS/WAN wasn't in 2.4 kernel because of the possibility of legal problems in some countries (just one example), so why would this be different?
Well, of course, USA has software patents and unfortunatly Europe is going the same way, but Africa hasn't yet!
It's the best I can do.
Why? Why the hell is he going to patent it in the first place? Isn't he
against software patents as he claimed to? Is he being pressed to do this? By who?
Well, if you had read the news you would see that europeans didn't sold anything, even the members of the European Parlement are against this measure from EU Council of not listening to Europeans and thus attack democracy in many ways.
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For all it takes, I have a simillar one, only in a far smaller company. Difference is that you're assuming that we'll (or Cisco for this matter) be assumed guilty until us/Cisco can prove inocence, when, in fact, the only thing it's needed to do is to proove that they didn't proove we're guilty.
Touché
I rest my case.
Well, of course, USA has software patents and unfortunatly Europe is going the same way, but Africa hasn't yet!
Check FFII...
You can read the news in English here.
Well, if you had read the news you would see that europeans didn't sold anything, even the members of the European Parlement are against this measure from EU Council of not listening to Europeans and thus attack democracy in many ways.
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