From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 16 7:45: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from po3.glue.umd.edu (po3.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE7A837B8F2 for ; Tue, 16 May 2000 07:45:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from howardjp@glue.umd.edu) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (root@z.glue.umd.edu [128.8.10.71]) by po3.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA28012; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:44:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from z.glue.umd.edu (sendmail@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA13665; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:44:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (howardjp@localhost) by z.glue.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA13661; Tue, 16 May 2000 10:44:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: z.glue.umd.edu: howardjp owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 10:44:54 -0400 (EDT) From: James Howard To: Brett Glass Cc: Arun Sharma , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GPL only patents In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000515234828.04172cf0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 15 May 2000, Brett Glass wrote: > Yes, I'm aware of this. Note that the philosophy here is that it's > OK if the FSF enjoys the monopoly conferred by patents, but not if > a programmer uses it to ensure that he is able to make a livelihood. > Another example of how, in Richard Stallman's "Humpty Dumpty" > world, some are "more equal than others." Does anyone else find the whole concept "predatory and anticompetitive?" J~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message