Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Dec 1998 05:54:34 -0500 | From | Dave Cinege <> | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux |
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"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > > 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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