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If someone removes something that belongs to me, software patents or not, I'll |
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be asking for removal of (at the very least) their cvs access. If not, I'll be |
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asking for their total removal from the project. You can have all the views you |
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want on the world. I do. This is a technical project, not your own personal soap |
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boxes. |
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--Iggy |
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twofourtysix wrote: |
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> I applaud all those people on the Planet who are posting |
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> anti-software-patent banners in their blogs. It's good to see yet |
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> another major software project taking a stance. |
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> |
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> Are these people prepared to back up their views by removing from the |
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> tree all those ebuilds for software made by companies who make heavy |
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> use of software patents? That would be far more effective, and may |
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> even encourage a few mainstream tech news sources to stop ignoring the |
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> issue. I can think of quite a few software-patent friendly companies |
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> who are currently gaining significant good PR from being 'supported' |
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> by Gentoo. |
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> |
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