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On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 06:13 +0100, twofourtysix wrote: |
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> Mostly, I was hoping that all those people who seem more than happy to |
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> advocate something with *words* would be prepared to back them up with |
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> *actions*. I think it's a shame that Gentoo is prepared to encourage |
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> people to pester their politicians whilst simultaneously refusing to |
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> spend a few minutes practising what it preaches. |
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Ok ... let's remove all software that might violate a european patent. |
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As some people stated, the kernel will go. As far as I know glibc and |
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gcc will be removed too. |
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All programs using sockets could potentially be an abuse, so no network |
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for you. |
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No progress bars. |
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Etc. etc. |
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I think skel.ebuild will be among the few survivors - 30.000 patents |
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don't leave much space for non-violating software, especially once you |
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realize that many of those patents are for trivial ideas (which are |
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unpatentable) |
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Or in other words: |
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Stop using "Free" Software since it's theft ;-) |
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wkr, |
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Patrick |
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Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move |
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