Software Patents important topic in ONLamp Raymond interview
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During Fórum Internacional de Software Livre in Brazil Open Source evangelist Eric Raymond was questioned about software patents.
Opinions
- About patent donations of IBM Think back to the days of the Cold War. If the Soviets let some dissidents out of jail, would you have told them "No, put those
- people back in jail" because you thought accepting that action
- Software patents cannot be stopped It's not like we could stop them, really.
- Patents are bad for standards A "standard" with blocking patents is a dangerous trap.
Article
2005-05-30 BZ Onlamp Interview with ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"
