[Novalug] Microsoft demands royalties for open-source software
Ross Patterson
RossPatterson@Comcast.Net
Tue May 15 08:33:01 EDT 2007
At 00:17 5/15/2007, Herminio Hernandez wrote:
>Apple is "trying" to be open source friendly.
Sure, this week. We should never forget that Apple started a lot of
this intellectual property mess. Somewhere I've still got a button
with the seven-color Apple logo and a nasty-looking snake coming out
of the bite, captioned "Keep your lawyers off my computer". I'm
pretty sure it was produced by the League for Programming Freedom, a
short-lived adjunct to the Free Software Foundation. The LPF was
focused on tearing down the legal protections surrounding software,
most especially patents.
>In OS X you can access the
>UNIX OS that OS X is loaded on top of. Plus at the apple website you can
>download alod GNU apps that are can be run on OS X.
Well, that's nice, but it doesn't have anything to do with Microsoft's patents.
Ross
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