On Feb 8, 2008 2:27 PM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:37:17PM -0500, Simo Sorce wrote: > > FWIW patents on software are insane, no need to dig further on the > > consequences of the original insanity ... > > Perhaps. The current situation is insane however. > > Originally the world could have chosen software as machine (no copyright law) > or as literary/creative work (copyright law). It eventually chose the latter > and then some idiot judge decided to make it both in the USA. Hard to know > if pure patent would have worked - assuming the patent office was also fixed > but the mix is a disaster. > > Even the copyright situation is warped "You may not reverse engineer" is > a bit like "you may not study this painting" - imagine art classes if > analysing the work of artists was outlawed - or poetry.. > Actually I have read papers advocating that. I have no doubt in 20 years someone will try and might suceed in doing it either. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
