On Thursday 23 October 2008 16:03:09 Josh Berkus wrote:
> Robert,
>
> > personally if someone does know that there is a patent, i'd rather we
> > heard about it before we put the code in than after.
>
> 90% of granted patents are invalid. And *nobody* on our mailing lists is
> capable of judging validity *or* infringement.
>
100% of "granted" patents are valid until proven otherwise.
> So you, Robert, are basically encouraging people to troll our lists with
> spurious patent issues. Please stop it, right now.
>
I think that is probably better than encouraging people to add knowlingly
infringing code into our source tree, which is what you, Josh, are basically
doing.
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Robert Treat
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