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- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: <sf@fermigier.com>, <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:26:53 +0100 (CET)
> >Most [open source companies] live in fear that they might be sued someday.
>
> What melodrama. How about some violins in the background. Only children
> live in fear. Adults learn to deal with the patent system. All comapnies
> in all industries have to deal with the potential of patents being
> asserted against them. There is nothing new or interesting in this
> reality affecting open source companies. But their problems are no
> different from any other industry experiencing patent problems because
> in the end software just another industry - nothing special - and like
> all the industries before it it is learning to adapt the patent system.
again you are only boasting.
You do not even attempt to substantiate any of those statements you make,
although they contradict a widely spread knowledge that is shared by many
people and supported by a lot of research reports.
You seem to believe that this mailing list is like PatNews: a unilateral
channel for disseminating truths from some guru whom people blindly trust
because he has proven to be good at finding prior art.
- Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software, (continued)
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