On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:48:25AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Michael Poole writes: > > Company B's "defensive" claims also affect all other users of the > > original software -- now that they attempt to enforce their patent > > rights, no other users can assume themselves to be safe. > > Why do you assume that company B's claims must have to do with the original > software, or even with software at all? Because that was the scenario I selected for an example. Why are you questioning a hypothetical? This is an example of a method by which the proposed clause is easily abused to prevent the work from being free software. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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