On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 12:17:08AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Andrew Suffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 02:43:48PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > >> On the other hand, lawsuits attempting to enforce "patents" on software > >> *are* intrinsically bad for free software. > > > > This argument says that since it's bad for nuclear power plant > > technicians to enforce patents on software, the software should not be > > permitted to be used in nuclear power plants. Therefore you are a gerbil.
<snip straw man> The form of both is "Since <person> performs <action>, <person> shall be punished by terminating their license". The claim was that this is somehow acceptable. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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