2007/11/9, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 08:31:42PM +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > You don't get it, it wouldn't solve the problem. > > > > You'd still have to go to the courts in order to prove that they are > > software patents and as such invalid. > > > > Do you have tens of thousands of Euros? > > I think you are the one missing the point Rui. Anyone can sue anyone for > anything - they are just likely to lose if they do something stupid. > > >From an EU perspective the patent situation is passably clear and there is > some caselaw for purely software patents. There is also some caselaw on > DeCSS (Finland) although it disagrees with UK caselaw and will eventually > no doubt end up in the european court for harmonisation. > > So from an EU perspective it makes a lot of sense. Unfortuantely from a US > perspective it makes rather less sense because the US idea of contributory > infringement is rather unfriendly. A little different question. I know that RedHat is based in the USA but how about all the people that make Fedora? is the majority of that in non USA countries? i' m just wondering that.. @David Boles I like fedora. i tried a dozen linux distributions but i keep coming back to Fedora. The fact that i like it doesn't mean that i agree on all parts (like this) but i understand why it's done so i will just have to use livna for it.. (actually makes codec buddy completely useless for me..) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
