Messages in this thread | | | From | "Herman Oosthuysen" <> | Subject | Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate | Date | Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:24:37 -0700 |
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----- Original Message ----- From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> > The fact that the source code is available doesn't give you > the right to use it, if some company has a patent on the > technology ...
If the law requires you to use it, then M$ won't be able to charge royalties for a patent on it. There are enough precedents of that kind of thing, so it will be free.
The whole idea however remains impractical, so even if it does pass into law, it would be largely irrelivant to any marginally competent geek.
What the music industry fails to understand, is that the music doesn't sell because it is bad. No amount of controls can compensate for that. Garbage in, Garbage out... Maybe they should go back to vinyl records that play on wind-up players with rose thorn pickups. That will instantly make music recordings incompatible with all CD equipment and nobody will want to copy it... -- Herman Oosthuysen Herman@WirelessNetworksInc.com Suite 300, #3016, 5th Ave NE, Calgary, Alberta, T2A 6K4, Canada Phone: (403) 569-5687, Fax: (403) 235-3965
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