From gmaxwell at gmail.com Thu Apr 13 11:10:44 2006 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============8950846429674450229==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Gregory Maxwell To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: Red Hat's "Cowardice" against Software Patents Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:10:30 -0400 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: 200604130910.10684.billcrawford1970@googlemail.com --===============8950846429674450229== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 4/13/06, Bill Crawford wrote: > On Wednesday 05 April 2006 22:22, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > What is it with the zeolots on this list, anyway? No contact with real= ity > > at *all*... > > -- > > Eric S. Raymond > > ... thus disproving the claim that all americans do not understand irony= ;) > > Eric, you *should* go talk to Fraunh=C3=B6fer, among others. Although it= certainly > would be cool for Red Hat (and/or others) to negotiate too. However as has > been mentioned several times, what is really needed is complete freedom, = and > as such this negotiation (or at least the initial approach) does seem more > appropriate for a non-commercial representative (well, not a corporate on= e). And of the encoder too... a free player is only of marginal use without a free encoder. Unless we are to think that free software users should be content to only consume content. --===============8950846429674450229==--