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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 05:43 AM EDT |
What makes you say that?
Free Software is already mostly free of patent claims from it's authors.
Can you point me at a lawsuit brought by the *author* of a free software project
about patents from use of that project?
Not counting a project where the author was bought out, like the current one.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 09:24 AM EDT |
| Patent royalties should really be calculated as a percentage of
the monetary benefit that the patented idea contributes to a product. Nothing
other than a percentage makes sense, because if absolute figures are used for
royalties then a product that uses a large number of patented ideas could be
required to pay more than 100% of its cost in royalties. It's logical nonsense
to demand more in royalties than the fractional contribution which the patented
idea has made to the product.
So if commonsense ruled and percentages were
used, FOSS software that is also free as in beer would automatically be free of
royalties to pay. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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