Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 31st Oct 2006 21:10 UTC
"The simple question 'what's wrong with software patents?' stirs up controversy and divides the IT industry into two camps like no other. Every group has their own ideology about software patents. Those who don't like them claim that they are anti-competitive, that they are tools used by industry giants to crush free and open software, that they are bad for innovation, that they are monopolies. Those who like them claim that they are simply units of intellectual property, to be traded like any other commodity."
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2005-07-26
>I bought a copy
Yes.
> and am entitled a copy of the blueprint
No. Do you live here on earth?
My understanding is that his little sub-topic was covering Linux (which you mis-typed as "Lunix"). And, indeed, the GPL does give him that right.
However, that does not apply to many other software licenses. I assume your post was referring back to those (to the exlcusion of the "Lunix" you brought up).
Your post was modded down, yet violated no rules. I up-modded it one.