From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com
Cc: jgg@deltatee.com, mtd@infradead.org
Subject: Re: Response from M-Systems
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 16:07:22 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199907122007.QAA11851@psilocin.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E113dlV-0006YU-00@devel2.axiom.internal> (message from David Woodhouse on Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:56:53 +0100)
> The lawyer told me that licensing the distribution of a program
> automatically licenses users to run it. I was relieved.
That seems very strange to me - I'd be very interested to know why he believes
this.
Lots of things in the law seem strange to non-lawyers.
His answer was a (pleasant) surprise to me, too.
What I'm trying to say is that software patents are a local issue.
Local to the United States, the UK, Japan, and maybe a year from now
all of Europe. It is rather callous to dismiss such a large part of
the computer-using world as "local".
We can offer a company like M-systems certain kinds of cooperation
if they cooperate with our community; we can offer this cooperation
in the context of our relationship with them specifically.
But we cannot make basic global decisions for the sake of
our relationship with one company.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-07-12 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-12 10:56 Response from M-Systems David Woodhouse
1999-07-12 20:07 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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1999-07-09 22:55 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 21:57 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 22:44 ` Jason Gunthorpe
1999-07-09 21:16 David Woodhouse
1999-07-11 4:46 ` Richard Stallman
1999-07-09 20:21 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 20:43 ` Jason Gunthorpe
1999-07-09 18:50 David Woodhouse
1999-07-09 20:04 ` Jason Gunthorpe
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