> >I know it's legal.. Software patents are *evil*.. I would just like to
> >know.. If they are using ideas taken from Linux source (which I think is
> >very likely, after all.. They just ported to Intel.. And what other OSes
> >are there out there w/ source that have SMP on Intel) I would like to
> >know.. It would also be nice if they gave a plug during bootup.. :)
>
>
> Geez, what incredible hypocrisy. He doesn't want people to be able to
> control the terms by which their software ideas are distributed or used, but
> he wants all kinds of concessions from someone who might be using Linux
> code. Sheesh!
Code and Ideas are differnt. Code is the final result of raw work.. Ideas
really arn't.. Your ideas are the fruits of the labors of the countless
people before you. Your code is the result of your labor more directly.
Software patents are *EVIL* because they IMHO are always too long and too
broad!
Ideas are something that once freed can never be bottled! If you dont want
anyone using your ideas then dont tell them to anyone.
"If nature has made any one thing less susceptible
than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the
thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively
possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is
divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the
receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too,
is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the
whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction
himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine,
receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread
from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual
instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have
been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made
them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their
density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and
have out physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive
appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of
property." -- Thomas Jefferson
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