The Netherlands is one place that doesn't support the sanctity of software patents. To be honest, Kevin and I are most worried about that.
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 11:41:18PM -0500, Drew Northup wrote: > > > > To clear things up a bit, the real problem with hosting in the US of A has > > little to do with the legality of the plex86 project itself and little to > > do with issues such as licensing and software-specific concerns. The > > problem is if somebody decides to get a patent for what we are doing of if > > the US government passes the SSSCA (or other stupid legislation). > > If the EU passes the EUCD and other laws we have the same problems in > the EU. Althought the directive proposal for software patents might be > stopped, the EU has the same problems. And with the proposed Hague > Treaty (See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/hague.html) you can be sued > for everything in every country. The problem you are talking about are > proposed almost everywhere on this plant. Bit you are talking about "if > ... does ...", it's not yet the case. I don't see why we have to > handle according that. When the real harm is there, we have enough > time to act. > > > There > > is nothing here that people haven't had the oportunity to be worried about > > already. > > So there is *no* problem with hosting this in the US. Having a backup > of everything available at some other place would be enough IMHO. > > Jeroen Dekkers > -- > Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org > IRC: jeroen@openprojects > |^^^ | | |^^| |^^^ Drew Northup, N1XIM |^^| | |^^^ \ / /^^\ /^^~ |__ | | | | | |__| | |___ \/ |__| |__ | | | | | | www.plex86.org | | | /\ | | | \ ___| |__| |__| |___ web.syr.edu/~suoc/ | |___ |___ / \ __/ __/
