Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 16:09:06 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208031609050.78523@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <1343995740.40983.YahooMailNeo@web120803.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> References: <loom.20120801T135633-743@post.gmane.org> <E012414FCF65894B89F69DE76AE15E9908274802@CPT-EXCH01.int.mtnbusiness.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1208011511490.3256@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <E012414FCF65894B89F69DE76AE15E9908274973@CPT-EXCH01.int.mtnbusiness.net> <20120802185759.GB12255@hemlock.hydra> <CADGWnjUbzn--o3VUe9LP5bpeb2Cwy8bfQQr5b=7SHN0h9Gi1Ww@mail.gmail.com> <1343995740.40983.YahooMailNeo@web120803.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
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> Let's also hope that most patents that could harm us (should there > be some lurking out there) will have expired by then. True. As most "technology" that ever microsoft "invented" is a quickly reengineered or just stoled things that was already done many years before in many other systems, very often BSD, then it is not a problem > 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. > But as usual with Congress, I wouldn't hold my breath: they aren't > exactly known for enacting reasonable and sensible laws. No government is known for that. but that's off topic.
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