Subj : Re: Software Patents To : comp.programming From : websnarf Date : Thu Jul 07 2005 09:04 pm Bryan Hackney wrote: > websnarf@gmail.com wrote: > > Bryan Hackney wrote: > >>CBFalconer wrote: > >> > >>>There is hope yet. Somebody did the right thing. See: > >>> > >>> > >> > >>I would call that a landslide. The US software business can rot > >>while the rest of the world takes over. We are so stupid sometimes. > > > > The US market is still the largest (or it may be roughly equal to that > > of the EU) so european software developers will still want to avoid US > > patents to make sure they can sell stuff in the US. > > I was thinking more along the lines of Linux development, where the > non-US developers can blithely go about their work, and where potential > US users who could benefit greatly are under court orders to avoid > even using Linux because of our stupid laws. That's fine, but my point is that RedHat won't be able to ship the code. -- Paul Hsieh http://www.pobox.com/~qed/ http://bstring.sf.net/ .