Amari canes homini lupi Zitat von Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Hi, > > trying to keep the off topic reasonably short... > > Well I myself do not have the opinion that patent laws > or politics should be the reason why some ReactOS guys > do not want help from Americans. There can be lots of > reasons. Of course you could ask what the reasons are. > > > But I do think that patents are too long-living and > granted for too trivial things today. Entities like > Philips have more than 100k patents, simply because > they have enough lawyers anyway... Startups, on the > other hand, can hardly afford checking whether their > own inventions contain things that have been patented > (but maybe never used in actual products) by somebody. > And to have trivial patents nullified takes much work. > > > I also do think that the Iraq war was wrong. Of course > Saddam was a pain, but only countries in the area had > any reason to start a war with him... Now you just have > a vacuum. Former oppressor gone and new govt does not > fit the local culture. And, well, all that terror stuff, > Bin Laden had money and power from when he was a "friend" > because he was an enemy of the enemy. Very unfortunate. > > > Today, the "war" -against- terror hurts my civil rights > far more than terror itself hurts me. War against a few > people is not possible. Similar to the problem that you > cannot free the internet from spam by using weapons. And > "war" against spam even makes people stop using email... > > > Talking about energy consumption: I guess the solution > is not using other sources of energy - The solution is > only using less energy. LED lights, AMD64x2EE or Intel > Core2Duo, small cars, isolated houses, all that stuff. > > > In any case, I would like to repeat that strange politics > and laws in the USA should be treated separate from the > point that it is fun to have international open source > projects... I was just trying to guess why some ReactOS > related people have a problem with "Americans as such". > I myself only have a problem with the politics and laws. > > Eric > > > PS: We can of course continue this chat via direct mail but > I did not know if you still use that blacklist which has > "Germany as a whole" listed as "spammer safe haven"...? ;-) > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
