<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 13/02/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Daniel Watkins</b> <<a href="mailto:D.M.Watkins@warwick.ac.uk">D.M.Watkins@warwick.ac.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > 1. Why do you want to increase the profits of a company that uses<br>> software patents to extort cash? Particularly given the threat that<br>> software patents pose to Free Software.<br>I'm not. I want them to Free their drivers. </blockquote><div><br>This is what, so that you can hang it on the wall?  <br><br>Or perhaps to run one of the printers that you bought from them - thereby increasing their profits.<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > 2. Persuading Kodak to open source their drivers is not a "win for the<br>> Free Software movement" as you so "snootily" put it.  It's begging for<br>> support from some company that has no respect for its users. <br>It is a win for the Free Software movement. It is also begging support<br>from some company that has no respect for its users.</blockquote><div><br>Anything that helps patent trolls succeed in business is actually a significant loss for everyone. <br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> How much of *your* work have you open sourced?<br>None of it. I have released it all under the GPL or the LGPL, </blockquote><div><br>Neat trick that - releasing code under the GPL without publishing the source.<br> </div><br></div>