Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:45:04PM -0500, Brian T. Sniffen wrote: >> In the current patent-litigation context, a large stable of patents to >> cross-license is considered a vitally important corporate defense >> strategy. > > *shrug* That's not our problem. > > President Bush considers a "missile defense shield" a vitally important > military defense strategy. That doesn't mean he's right, or that he > deserves our support.
There's a difference between lack of support, which I endorse, and active opposition. A license which has a cost to anyone holding a software patent, as the currently proposed Apache license, is non-free. -Brian -- Brian T. Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.evenmere.org/~bts/