On Aug 3, 2012, at 12:42 PM, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 04:09:06PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> Unless Congress >>> pulls a Mickey Mouse Protection Act-lookalike on patents by extending >>> them just as they did with Copyright. >>> >> >> then it will still hit USA users only. FreeBSD master site can simply be >> moved. > > If we're talking about patent infringement then moving FreeBSD outside of > the country does zero to protect users of FreeBSD. Every single one of > them that uses a part of FreeBSD that a patent holder claims infringes on > a patent is vulnerable to a lawsuit. > > Also, if you pay attention to the news then you see in the DMCA, ACTA, the > TPP, and other examples that the US is trying to get the rest of the world > to adopt its views. The weird thinking that people in government have is > that the solution to a bad law that affects only the US is to get other > countries to adopt the same bad law so as to hurt everyone everywhere. > > But, at the end of the day I think FreeBSD should worry about patent > infringement the way people worry about dying in a car wreck: Use a > reasonable amount of care to avoid it, and then don't worry about it. > > -- > Kevin P. Neal http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
Out of curiosity has anyone ever heard of trolls patenting open source technologies after the fact? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
