On Dec 9, 2003, at 09:49, Andrew Suffield wrote:
Whenever you are faced with a plausible argument for both sides, the one with the more expensive lawyer wins.
There is a more than plausible argument that just about everything in Debian violates a software patent. Debian's lawyers (us?), AFAIK, cost $0.
So, we need to decide based on more than a plausible argument.