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| Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, May 18 2012 @ 09:21 AM EDT |
"Such a decision would virtually immunize FOSS from patent claims."
"I think this would practically eliminate paid development of software
which is to be released as free software"
What I would like you to back up, is how removing the patent system from FLOSS
development would hinder paid development work on FLOSS.
It is already removed from the perspective of the authors of the code for GPL
programs. Which leaves BSD-style authors, and trolls, to bring patent
infringment lawsuits around FLOSS. Removing the trolls from the picture is a
net gain. Which leaves BSD-style authors bringing patent suits about patents in
their software against their users, or any patent author suing another
implementation not derived from their own. The second case is not effected by
this as there's a very simple solution, merge and fork with their BSD-style
code, since their lisence encourages you to do so, so you become their
customer.
Which leaves BSD-style authors suing their customers for patent infringement.
When has anyone who was the original author of the code done this?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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