Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

C S Hendrix (shendrix@escape.widomaker.com)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 12:26:38 -0500


In message <367D1373.18CC0AA7@luz.fe.uni-lj.si>, Andrej Presern writes:

> When have people been prohibited from writing good free software because
> they haven't got any patents to trade?

Every time they want to code a technique that has been patented.
Some are so vague and/or broad that this really could be a serious
problem.

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