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Man... That conversation is just getting insane... What
is legal in one country may be illegal in other countries and so on and
so forth and we just come back to the 1960's (yeah, most of you had not
been born). For those of you (including lawyers) who thinks that the
Vietnam War was that war won by Rambo (aka Silvester Stallone) killing
dozens (thousands) of "bad communist oriental people", I had some bad
news: this discussion about "open software" dates from that time. In 46
years of discussion, we see again and again the same arguments. But the
fact that remains is that nobody in the bloody hell of planet earth can
make a patent out of an unrealized idea... I patent devices. I patent a
device that decodes some code. I can't patent the code itself. I can't
patent an idea... The code may, as far as I know, be "copyrighted" to
the author who wrote it and he can sell it tho others. Like a book.
If writers behave the same way, nothing would have been written since ... well ... perhaps the greeks some 400 years BC. It is obvious that every new code will have something "borrowed" from previous code. That is called evolution. I heard the same kind of discussion when network was at its beginings... Most of you were in the kindergarden. Oh... yeah... OSI will triumph against Ethernet because it is a set of completely free and openly defined protocols. Ethernet is closed, proprietary and evil defined. Hey... just take a look on SNMP and its evil peculiarities... while CMIS and CMIP is free... OSI handles much better industrial environments with lots of non-stochastic networks (field-bus/token-rings), the FTAM for interconection in industrial environments... Little of that survives today... What we see is Ethernet V4, SNMP V4/V6 and so on ans so forth... I heard the same kind of discussion when PCs started to be manufactured around the world... About patents held by IBM. Any of you believe that RPOC payed any royalty to IBM? I do much doubt... not to mention lots of latin american countries... I heard people saying (perhaps you were at high school) that *NUX would never go ahead because it was owned by Digital, that became Compaq, that became HP. And yes, there are people still issuing M$ and other vendors (Sun, Apple, etc) because the "original idea of Windows" belonged to Xerox Vista. To be issued, you just must be alive and someone else think you looked at him in strange way... Anyways, if this discussion about legal/illegal does not move to a forum focused in laws and litigation, I do think that it will be a dead end for all of us... Regards, Casimiro PS: sorry to be writting again, but it just ... off when you have to delete dozens of crazy messages. Leszek Matok escreveu: Dnia 05-04-2006, śro o godzinie 13:05 -0400, Horst von Brand napisał(a): |
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