On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:28:18AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Dec 9, 2003, at 09:49, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > >Whenever you are faced with a plausible argument for both sides, the > >one with the more expensive lawyer wins. > > There is a more than plausible argument that just about everything in > Debian violates a software patent. Debian's lawyers (us?), AFAIK, cost > $0. > > So, we need to decide based on more than a plausible argument.
In order to produce software, you are implicitly required to ignore potential patent infringement unless somebody starts enforcing the patent. Otherwise it's impossible to do anything. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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