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| Authored by: SLi on Thursday, May 17 2012 @ 10:17 PM EDT |
The right to sell a piece of software is central to its
freedom in the FOSS
sense.
A license that forbids delivering a piece of software
(possibly as
part of a compilation) for a fee cannot be a
free software license. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 07:52 AM EDT |
I can see that they have to use as many defenses as
possible, but this is not a good one, and I hope it doesn't
succeed.
The results would also be bad for Google. Specifically in
this case, pushing liability onto the handset makers could
cause android to become a less competitive option for makers
to use.
I can see there is a strong case (that I support) for
abolishing software patents, but whilst we have them, it
makes a nonsense of the idea if we allow people to freely
distribute competitors "tech" as long as they don't charge
for it.
It could even become good business practice to read
competitors patents, reimplement all their technology and
give it away for free, purely as an anticompetitive measure
to damage their licensing revenues.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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