To: Petronski
Just like this, having liberals in government prohibit any software formats that include patents, thereby restricting their potential use. Open source or especially free software is an anathema to intellectual property rights, especially patents.
To: Petronski
Because lord forbid that in the United States of America (or any of the sovereign municipalities within) people have the ability to access public information about their elected government on an Open Document format that nobody can restrict the use of.
76 posted on
09/29/2005 9:56:19 AM PDT by
N3WBI3
(If SCO wants to go fishing they should buy a permit and find a lake like the rest of us..)
To: Golden Eagle
All that Microsoft has to do is implement ODF. You seem to think that any consumer choice rejecting Microsoft is a communist conspiracy.
Open source or especially free software is an anathema to intellectual property rights, especially patents.
Nah, mostly it's anathema to Microsoft's sense of entitlement to a revenue stream. Too bad so sad.
80 posted on
09/29/2005 9:59:28 AM PDT by
Petronski
(I thank God for Cyborg.)
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