thought of writing new thread for everything below and attempting to be as objective as I can become... please ignore if you sincerely feel this is a waste of bandwidth or resources (I am already paying my telephone bill for writing this from gmail)
One of the very powerful considerations for any new development should be a credit or some rating which defines how best the new developed product utilizes existing infrastructure or resources... it will really also reduce the load on patent office. Otherwise we will have 10,000 patents for every thread on a screw! These ideas are probably not new but rewritten here in the hope that people using this list for learning (including *this) will attempt to think and utilize it somewhere... wherever there is an opportunity.. There is this another important aspect... about software patents instead of opposing patents outright one could argue out to raise the definitions of software patents while still maintaining the spirit of sharing... think of how to modify what is existing instead of opposing if it already exists.. in some form. Why just oppose software patents and not oppose other patents? Think of process patent instead of product patents.. that is how it is in India. The patent problem is serious where there are product patents... it kills innovation... while process patents allows one to think of arriving at the same point using some other method... As Gandhiji once said (it could have been shakespere too), how you do something is equally important as what you do... And Lincoln in his famous letter his son's headmaster said .... what? :-) One of the Plug member has a thought provoking article on http://www.bindhast.com (hope it is still there) about morality of career choices which could be helpful to newbies in making career choices.. bye... -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
