Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Free Software vs. Open Source: Where do*you* stand?

From: Cesare Marilungo <cesare@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 07:14:39 EET

Lee Revell wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 05:44 +0100, Cesare Marilungo wrote:
>
>
>>Sorry, but this is *not* true.
>>
>>What if I own a patent for what could be the only possible way to
>>write
>>a fast realtime FFT algorithm?
>>Nobody else can write an application that does the FFT at that speed.
>>This is science (computer science, indeed).
>>
>>This is knowledge, and should be free.
>>
>>
>
>Well by your logic, ALL patents (hardware and software) are invalid.
>
>Lee
>
>
>
Yes. :-)

Or better, they're unjust. I guess you know that the existence of
gnu/Linux and open source software in general is in danger because of them.

c.

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Received on Sun Feb 26 20:18:53 2006

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