Re: [Patents] Mandrake files for French version of bankruptcy

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 06:26, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> The author goes on to offer three possibilities: lock-in software
> distribution at the low end (such as Lindows), which doesn't have much
> of a sustainable business model, proprietary add-ons and servicing
> (such as SCO, which gets back to pure copyright and patents), or make
> your source code such a pain-in-the-ass to install that people will want
> to buy binaries from you as well as service contracts (such as RedHat,
> though a philosophy directly counter to the Linux self-help movement).
> But servicing is a very competitive business that the big boys like IBM
> tend to win.  And IBM doesn't have to pay you anything.  I applaud your
> altruism.  Me, I want a big fat software patent.

People against free market always search a way to evade competition, you
are asking to go back to a feudal anti-democratic anti-capitalistic
technological society.
Essentially you want to go toward an USSR model, where the state grants
monopolies and eliminates any sort of competition ... I thought USA was
really against state capitalism, and pro free market ... seem a lot of
things are changing lately on that part of the Ocean.

Simo.

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