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>In article <c0HNgB8w164w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (From A to B) writes:
>>The GNU project started because people were fed up with having restrictions
>>placed on what they could do with the code they had.  So now they release code
>>which STILL has restrictions on what you can do with it -- just DIFFERENT
>>restrictions.

There are good and bad restrictions. For example, refusing to allow
black people to vote, and refusing to allow returning officers to keep
black people from voting are both restrictions. I wonder if the FSF
shouldn't take it a step further, and start patenting common
programming techniques before we lose any more of them. I'm not
suggesting that the GPL apply to those techniques -- only that, once
they are patented by the FSF, it formally release the patents fully
into the public domain. Eventually, its goal would be to have its own
patents declared invalid in the first place.

Then again, it could always patent something which Apple and/or AT&T
uses, and then blackmail them out of their own patents ;-)


David

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Centre for Medieval Studies      david@doe.utoronto.ca
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