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To: antiRepublicrat
why would this Sun executive want to mitigate something that's not possible?

Who said it was not possible? No one, proving how desperate you've become. I said you could face a patent suitfor forking, which remains absolutely correct. And of course why communists prefer GPL, and want to see our patent laws overturned.

209 posted on 03/14/2006 1:48:43 PM PST by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Who said it was not possible? No one, proving how desperate you've become. I said you could face a patent suitfor forking

I new you'd weasel out in that way. Wrong, you have no proof. The license specifically grants patent license to the software, and explicitly allows that software to be modified and redistributed (which allows a fork). Show me a provision in the license that rescinds the patent license in the case of a fork and I'll believe you. Tell me why you can fork MPL and not CDDL and I may believe you if you're rational.

Here, I'll be nice and give you a link to a Sun page showing their intent behind the CDDL, including the bit about how they wanted the patent issue to be easier for people (not harder, as you seem to think).

And of course why communists prefer GPL, and want to see our patent laws overturned.

Beside the point. And I don't believe even Stallman wants patent laws overturned. But I would also like to see a reversal of the judicial activism that allowed software to be patented in the first place.

211 posted on 03/14/2006 2:12:23 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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