launchd for Linux

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 12:47 -0400, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> I'm not sure how I feel about that. One of the biggest problems in the
> software world is the abuse of patents. This is a pretty good way of
> putting the "kaibosh" (however you spell it) on IP patents, which are
> not a good idea to begin.

If it limited itself to patents that covered the licensed software, I
don't think anyone would be likely to have a problem with it. However,
it also covers "real-world" patents. I don't think there's any strong
feeling that they're intrinsically wrong.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org