Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: > > I have read your message a couple of times and I have yet to find > one such "case in point"...
Maybe I'm missing your point, but there seems to be lots of talk about the evil of RSA-style patents and the laws that allow them. I'm not a big fan of the GPL. The short explanation is that I think the GPL is misleading and that "free" better describes BSD or public domain software, not the restrictions in the GPL. My understanding is that this is a common belief. It's easy for GPL supporters to say that software patents are one of the biggest threats to free software in the middle of the exclusionary period. It's like all the reports in the middle of summer complaining about global warming. I have never heard and probably never will hear a global warming report when it's below freezing outside. So, I think it's fair to point out when it happens that software or ideas under the current legal regime end up with significantly fewer restrictions than they would have under the legal regime advocated by FSF and GPL. So, that's the "case in point": Under the RSA example, the current legal regime, for all its imperfections, results in software and ideas that are freer than what you would have under a pure GPL legal regime. Paul Serice
