On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:47 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > Russell Harrison wrote: > > Hopefully redirecting the users irritation to where it belongs: the US > > Patent Office. As long as we make it very clear that there are viable > > alternative free formats, and that supporting the non-free formats IS > > possible with existing open source code, it just isn't legal here in > > the states. > > This is a tremendously good point, I think. In the FOSS community I > think we have a lot of resentment towards the patent system. But it > won't be until our users start to build up a resentment towards the > system that we actually see anything happen. And one sure way to do > that is to make the American consumers feel that the rest of the world > has an advantage over them due to the patent laws in the country they > live in. > It's not just the US. The european patent system isn't vastly better, either. -sv _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
