[OT] Patents (was: ImageDisk)

On Mon, 2006-01-02 15:58:46 -0500, der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote: Well, countries/peoples also build Atomic bombs just to have them and to hinder other countries to use those... That's not neccessarily a good idea. Copyright and prior art would allow to fight back. Well, patents are most commonly filed for applications in which no normal-thinking ("common sense") people would find one in... Not goin' in-depth, I want to state two things about you (Dave) and ImageDisk: * Thanks for turning down your idea to stop the project. * Though I like the GPL and have published code under the GPL, I'm agaiting the point in time when you think you're ready for publishing (under whatever license you like, as long as sources get available). I probably won't contribute to ImageDisk (not because I don't like it, not because if license issues, just because I got enough other building places and only a negative amount of time is available...), but I probably would like to have a look at it, to (from a practical point of view) understand how a FDC works. So again, thanks for reconsidering your point of view. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O f?r einen Freien Staat voll Freier B?rger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));