Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 03:11:03AM -0500, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >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.

caveman rhetorics

(totalitarian caveman, of course)

I wonder what wood he uses for his club.

>  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.
> 
> Greg Aharonian

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