> * Raul Miller: > > I'm not even sure what "indirect support of software patents" means -- > > is anything other than outspoken criticism of software patents "indirect > > support"?
On Tue, Sep 14, 2004 at 10:17:34PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > If you try to convince your fellow Debian developers and upstream > developers to drop all defenses against software patents, you either > assume that the threat is not real (I don't think anyone here takes > this position), or that the interests of the patent owners should > dominate the free software community. Yeah, great. Where's the context that makes this sentence of yours relevant? > However, this discussion belongs to -project, because it's not just a > question of software licenses, but also of Debian's long-term policies > on software patents. (There's a new thread over there, finally.) If you're saying that you think your interjection about implicit support of software patents was off topic, I guess I'd have to agree. -- Raul
