On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:14 +0200, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi Alexandre, > > Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > IMO, > > giving proprietary guys even a tiny chance to sue one of our > > developers should never occur. > > Unfortunately, with the US legal system, it's almost certainly the case > that the proprietary guys can sue us whenever they want. Likely enough > it will be patent violation, but perhaps trademark and copyright issues > will also surface (particularly DMCA). > > IMHO, avoiding patent-encumbered functionality which is important for > advancing the program is a mistake, and is giving in to the flawed legal > system. I don't think that we should court lawsuits, but we should also > not ham-string ourselves by actively avoiding them. Let the chips fall > where they may, one day soon there will be a landmark lawsuit, thousands > of patents (and patent applications) will be thrown out, forcing a > severe reform of the US and EU patent systems. > > Cheers, > Dave.
I agree. Do until done. Its good to know generally the law, but not to be encumbered by it. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create
