On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 06:20:24AM -0700, Jim Lynch wrote: > First off, sorry about mailing to you directly as well as to the list. > I'll get that fixed soon. Your backspace key is broken? > (did you read the above? I'm not suggesting the lawyers are needed to > -determine- if the patents are bogus. I'm stating that if debian is to > have this backbone and set of balls you speak of, it should -fight- the > patents and have them recinded. So, in fact we do agree that the patents > are bogus, but you believe they should be ignored and I believe they > should be dealt with.) We don't have the funds for that, and that is not our charter. If you want to establish an organization whose charter *is* to fight software patents, more power to you--but I have a feeling your funding will run out fairly quickly. -- Mike Stone
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