Comments on: Another Small Defeat for Software Patents (and Win for Free Software) in the US

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:13:28 +0000

http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/07/13/20/22/20-sun-fights-to-invalidate-the-fir

“They were simply feeding the trolls — it’s the same as when you simply pay the protection tax to the Mafia instead of calling the police and trying to fight with the evildoers.“

By: Balzac

Balzac — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:38:24 +0000

I don’t want to be protected from software patent claimants by extortion payments to those claimants which shield me as a user from patent liability for that specific software.

I read something about all upstream sources and downstream derivatives being protected by the Redhat deal but I still didn’t get any warm fuzzy feelings from it.

I think the optimal response to software patent claims is organized civil-disobedience.

Once again, a critical point of view of BoycottNovell.com seems entirely appropriate.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:18:40 +0000

Yes, he has already begun using that celebrity status and trust fund, but if you say something about it, you'll get attacked. "Charity" is a moral shield, just like "donation". Some would call it sentimental blackmail. "There's free software and then there’s open source... there is this thing called the GPL, which we disagree with."

--Bill Gates, April 2008

By: Linux

Linux — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 07:08:00 +0000

Bill Gates has not left Microsoft. He is just gone behind the scene and is now fighting GPL using teh name of Foundation. The charity and all leaving MS is just a eye wash to fool the masses.

He is going to use all his wealth and power to stop GPL/Linux/FOSS at every place and at every cost using the name of his foundation.