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To: Golden Eagle
Richard Stallman is one of the original developers of what became the Linux OS

Partially true if you consider the "Linux OS" to be Linux plus several tools that Stallman wrote. However, he is not a developer of the Linux kernel.

"Amazon has obtained a US patent on an important and obvious idea for e-commerce,"

He's not the only one, a lot of people were pissed that patent was ever granted. Jeff Bezos himself funded an organization that tried to find prior art to shoot it down.

"US Patent law is to blame for authorizing patents on computational techniques and patterns of communication," he writes.

Well, he's wrong on that. It's patent regulation that allows it, regulation changed to match the decisions of activist judges.

462 posted on 04/07/2006 8:11:34 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat

" Partially true if you consider the "Linux OS" to be Linux plus several tools that Stallman wrote. However, he is not a developer of the Linux kernel."

Otherwise, it'd be called "Stallmanix" or something.


467 posted on 04/08/2006 7:09:31 AM PDT by FLAMING DEATH
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