On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 04:08:37PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Suffield <asuffield@debian.org> wrote: > > > Company B cannot make counterclaims from its defensive patent > > portfolio, because that would invoke the termination clause and kill > > its modified version. Company B has no practical defence against this > > lawsuit, so the modified version is killed. They have been effectively > > trapped in a double-bind. > > Why are we concerned about people who patent pieces of software while > claiming that they'll only use these patents defensively? You cannot reject a user because you don't like them for some reason, and say that they do not deserve the same freedoms as everybody else and therefore it doesn't matter that the software isn't free for them. That's the sort of thing we're trying to *stop*. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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