gThumb

[Bryan Quigley]

That's not the right question, for patent issues the right question is:
Which is greater?
(Reward) Functionality provided by including software package by default.
(Risk) Possible costs (FUD and monetary) from patent issues.

I think the Reward < Risk for Mono, due to the majority of functionality
already being provided.  Furthermore, I don't think helping Microsoft
increase the use of a language they effectively control is a good thing.

I encourage you to read my specification (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/No-Mono-by-Default).
Ignore patent issues for now, as we are obviously not coming to a consensus
on that subject.

The gThumb removal surprised me as I have been watching (
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReducingDuplication) and did not see any
discussion on which to remove.
Thank You,
Bryan Quigley

On Jan 17, 2008 3:05 AM, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 18:28 -0500, David A. Harding wrote:
> > F-Spot is inefficent
> > and may violate Microsoft's patents.
> >
> > Ubuntu users deserve beautiful things and they don't deserve to have
> > them taken away because we ignored potential patent violations
>
> According to MS, the Linux kernel violates many of their patents. Should
> we remove the kernel, too?
>
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