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Re: sarge and software patents



On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:36:18PM -0500, Steve Block wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
> >Kent West wrote:
> >
> >>Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>>My little sister could <deleted> register on a web site.
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>
> >>and
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>>If tomorrow my job is to migrate Linux plateforms onto windows, then
> >>>i'll feel like <deleted> and will soon be unemployed.
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>Realizing that different cultures have different concepts of "foul
> >>language", this is just a reminder of Debian's stated policy, from
> >>http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/:
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >>>   Code of conduct
> >>>
> >>><snip>
> >>>Do not use foul language; besides, some people receive the lists via
> >>>packet radio, where swearing is illegal.
> >>>   
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> 
> >>
> >There are other languages and behaviors that don't use **** or **** bit 
> >are much worst.
> >
> >There is a huge misinformation campaign to make deputies think software 
> >patents are necessary for innovation.
> >Many people are mooving. Like writing letters to their deputies and to 
> >newspapers.
> >
> >The more people would have been reacting, the more chance we would have 
> >to avoid the disaster.
> >It's sad that software has to deal with politics. Also sad you think i'm 
> >the bas guy.
> 
> You're making jerk of yourself in front of hundreds of people. Please
> stop or take your comments to slashdot, where they belong.


But isn't he right, at the end of the day, to be concerned about
software patents? Are the large companies not going to use the
legislation in the same way McDonalds used the libel law? Personally I
find the way politics is run these days far more obscene than one or two
swear words, as well. And I would have thought this list was exactly the
right place for a discussion of these issues. Why is it not?


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