On 07-05-2011 17:05, Loui Chang wrote: > Or the distro could purchase or otherwise aquire licenses to all claimed > patents... ha... ha... > > ... and then you fall out of bed and wake up. Either that or someone with very very very deep pockets needs to finance that. I agree that all this software patent stuff is getting ridiculous but it's what we have now. As far as I know most if not all distros (and upstream) are leaving the choice of using patented stuff up to the end user. -- Mauro Santos