On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Jeremy Hogan wrote:
The real issue is that US copyright is broken and software patents
are
for suckers. So rather than allow people gray area end-arounds to
using patent of bully infringed code, we should instead advocate for
things like Ogg, Theora and FLAC. And continue to go way out of our
way to make sure that people understand the real reasons why RH can't
ship that stuff, and it's not that they can't afford the royalties on
MP3 codecs.
"Software patents are for suckers."
There's another good slogan for the list. Leave it to Slogan Hogan.
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