Patents will be the bane of 2 categories of software: * Open Source and Free Software (from the GNU definition of Free) * Small companies software, that cannot cough up the enormous patent licensing prices. As such, forget about Konqueror (current CSS2 conformance leader), forget about Opera (current user-interface leader), forget about OmniWeb, forget about just about the network desktop that KDE and GNOME are trying to provide for UNIX, forget about just about that has built the web. Sendmail, BIND, Apache, UNIX. All built the web you are using today. All without patents. Not a single of those could have coughed up the patent licensing fees. For if the web had had patents, there'd be no web. -- Christian Lavoie clavoie@bmed.mcgill.caReceived on Sunday, 30 September 2001 09:23:42 GMT
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