Re: Debian-based gadget: Nokia 770
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:22:45PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:
> Nokia's position may not be official, but Tim Frain (head of Nokia's
> patent department) has never missed an opportunity to ask politicians to
> support software patents. To the best of my knowledge, no Nokia employee
> has lobbied equally massively against software patents.
Wouldn't someone working in the patent department potentially be a bit
biased in favour of patents? If they couldn't get patents anymore he
would be out of a job.
> Since I cannot know what happens inside Nokia, I judge the company by
> what it does when its employees communicate with the outside world.
Len Sorensen
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