On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 07:18:15PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Jeroen" == Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.cx> writes: > Jeroen> I hope you mean "when the US doesn't support software > Jeroen> pantents anymore" here. > > No, I meant what I said. While at least one country in the world > refuses to recognise software patents, there will be a safe place for > that which we currently call "non-US" to exist (the fact that it's > currently called "non-US" rather than "non-encumbered" or something > else is irrelevant to me). If every nation in the world supports > software patents, then Debian will no longer be able to package > potentially patent infringing code because it will be illegal to do > so everywhere (yes, that last staement is a tautology). > > I don't believe the US will ever stop supporting softare patents; > there's too much money at stake. I don't believe the rest of the world will ever support software patents. Probably the European directive can already be stopped. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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