9 Mar
2004
9 Mar
'04
4:22 p.m.
Hi,
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Thierry Coutelier wrote:
I you are a software engineer stop programming
immediately.
Writing a line of code may infringe some obscure patent and
you may go to jail because of this.
They have lost their mind...
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ACK. How to beat it back into their their heads?
What steps to take to undo this wrongness? A way to get
it invalidated as unconstitutional or whatever?
So, the very moment you need FOSS the most, is the moment
they take away ability to get FOSS done... ouch.
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l33t anyway - your message has beat Heise and SlashDot by
far, also nothing as yet on ffii.org.
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Greets Eric