On 5/21/06, Max Brown <max05001@yahoo.com> wrote:
Max p.s. Software is not music. Software is not visual art. Software is a code, a literary work (and Berna Convention consider software as a literary work). So software patents are unlogicall.
There are two prevaling views of software which I have seen. The view that software is the opposite of hardware, anything which is in binary format and the view that software is executable code. The former view is the most inclusive and the one (in my understanding) held by DD's. The latter is the one held by you. To better understand the former view I recommend you read this article: http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/anarchism.html Please know that I am not a Debian developer and do not represent the views of the Debian project. -David Mattli