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SubjectRe: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
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> > Stallman once told me, "patents are a governement mandated monopoly".
> > I've thought alot about that. He's right.
>
> He may be right, but that doesn't mean he should ignore reality.
> Reality: Software patents are legal.

Lot's of things are 'legal' that are not right. The inverse is also true.

> Yeah, well tough. You don't make the laws.

Congressmen don't make my principals. That is what is importatnt, not the
current statute of the week.

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