Posted on 03/28/2007 7:34:01 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
In the end Stallman and Torvalds both believe in copyleft
But as you have been told, Torvalds sees it as a useful development model, no more. He does not have the philosophical visionary view that Stallman has. This has caused many public spats between Torvalds and Stallman and his followers, including the one you mentioned on Groklaw.
and want to do away with software patents
It's nice to see you now restrict that to software patents instead of your lying blanket anti-patent claim.
since they infringe on the property rights of so many others, just as you do
Show one infringement case brought and won against Linux.
just as you do
In any thing I've done, I claim fair use. I notice how you berated me for my "infringement" while leaving other admitted "infringers" here alone. Why is that?
You also have often quoted my copyrighted text on this board without my permission. You have even posted excerpts from copyrighted articles on this board without permission of the copyright holder. Pot calling kettle black, for sure.
BTW, I'll bet you're right on this as far as software patents go. I have written programs that other people are using. I wrote them entirely from scratch in .NET, using nothing but my standard programming skills, not trying to copy what anyone was doing (in fact, with one I was purposely trying to get away from the standard model of such apps that I didn't like).
Due to the absurdity of the software patent situation, there is a high likelihood that I've violated one or more software patents that shouldn't have been issued in the first place. Which ones? I don't know. Any standard, trivial thing I did could have been patented. I think my progress bar may have violated patent #5301348. Yes, the progress bar is patented.
In another app I did a few years ago, I know I infringed on patent #10260471 (filed 2002). But then so has almost every Lisp, Java, Pascal and C programmer, and it's certainly been infringed by anyone with a computer science degree since 2002.
ROFL. Your schitzo that agrees with me is starting to show.
For the most part, an otherwise sane person must be having a schizo moment to be agreeing with you.
But my example served its purpose in highlighting the absurdity of our system granting software patents they way they are. It is impossible to write any software of any serious complexity without violating at least one software patent.
BTW, in case you didn't get it, the patent I was talking about that almost every programmer has violated essentially patented linked lists. The patent was issued almost exactly 50 years after the idea of linked lists was first published by real computer researchers.
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