Re: XMMS and the new MP3 patent terms
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On Thursday 29 Aug 2002 12:44 pm, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * Tom Badran <tb100@doc.ic.ac.uk> [2002 Aug 29 06:03 -0500]:
> > America = Sick joke of a patent system (for software anyway) desinged to
> > keep Georges friends (read financial contributors) happy.
> >
> > Anyone else notice that it was king GEORGE who was famously insane, and
> > now there is GEORGE bush, i see a pattern emerging :)
>
> Say what you will about our president. To lay this solely at his feet
> when the man has only been in office a little over 18 months and the
> patent problem is many years old is unfair at best. To assume the patent
> problems over here suddenly began with his inauguration is to ignore
> reality. The current patent mess began well before GW, during the
> presidency of Party Boy Bill.
I was merely commenting on your president in general, i personally think the
man is a lunatic. I do agree that the patent problems has very little to do
with him personally, but he isnt exactly trying to help (is anyone ecept the
EFF an FSF?).
Tom
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