Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 04:14:48 -0800 From: Boris <koester@x-itec.de> To: "Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de" <jhs@jhs.muc.de> Cc: Peter Mutsaers <peter@mutsaers.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, "Hartmut Pilch" <phm@ffii.org> Subject: Re: Software Patents. Was Re: FreeBSD vs Linux, Solaris, and NT Message-ID: <1142989806.20001222041448@x-itec.de> In-Reply-To: <200012220120.eBM1KVp10419@jhs.muc.de> References: <200012220120.eBM1KVp10419@jhs.muc.de>
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Hello Julian, Thursday, December 21, 2000, 5:20:31 PM, you wrote: I really hope that software patentīs wont be possible in Europe. This would be a real problem for some of us who are not only consulting but developing, too. I remember that a lot of people try to get a patent on the lamest routines and if someadays these patents are legal, they will make money. There are a lot of people out in the world who have very good ideas for good products and they want to develop them to make money (as me, itīs my job - consulting and developing) - but without software patents. I think software patents in Europe would be very dangerous and a lot of people will get a lot of problems. We should not destroy the computer world as the same world, named reality. In "our" world, the computer-specialists are the formers and directors what will be in the feature. The most of us have the ideals to make a "better world" in digital form. A lot of people with a lot of good ideas. On the other side, there are a lot of people wo canīt be rich enough. They try to destroy everything we build over the years. The do not understand what we want to do and where we want to go. We all want to be together, a mega-big community over the world. We want to realise projects in peace and together to build the "most perfect code". We have a lot of fun with doing this. We want to learn and we want to make things better, for fun and to earn some money, too. In the last month I had a very bad dream. Someone said "Now, it is possible to have software patents about everything in the word". And a group of people went to the "digital underground". They are developing and redistributing their operating system still for free, but no one knows who is developing on it. Some of them get caught and they are arrested, because they would develop and distribute software with patented algorithms and so on and this wonīt be allowed. A VERY BAD DREAM. And I know if there would really be software patents in europe, a lot of people would build a digital underground, where ideas are ideas, and where we have no restrictions. A lot of us are dreamers with a lot of visions. I really hope that this will not be destroyed by people who canīt be rich enought! I am developing since I am 12 years old. Now I am 25 and I am still developing. I wonīt stop it, I love it. If routines i am using are restricted or patented, I really would ask myself for what person I am working. For me, or for someone who was a silly one and patented every silly routine. If this happens, that nearly every routine can be patented, then I really donīt know what to do. I donīt want to think that I have spent the years with learning and developing and now I would have to pay license fees for someone who was rich enough to patent some houndrets of (mostly silly) routines. Some people canīt be rich enough. They destroy everything. We developers should do everything that this wonīt happen in Europe or other nations. We computer-freaks want a mega great community. Freedom. Knowledge and peace. This is the way we go. Fight against patents! -- Best regards, Boris mailto:koester@x-itec.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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