On Fri, 2008-02-08 at 16:27 -0500, Alan Cox 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.. Alan I could not agree more. Simo. -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
