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From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: christos gentsis <christos_gentsis@yahoo.co.uk>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, root <root@mail.gadugi.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 17:25:50 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050116172550.B22646@almesberger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0501161112190.31402@chimarrao.boston.redhat.com>; from riel@redhat.com on Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 11:13:03AM -0500

Rik van Riel wrote:
> Only secrets can be trade secrets.

I think he's just trying to re-invent patents under a different
name. IMHO, this isn't necessarily an outright lunatic idea, but
I wouldn't be surprised if it received a friendlier reception if
contradictory naming could be avoided.

- Werner

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-16 20:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-06 18:04 Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members root
2005-01-06 18:36 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-06 18:37   ` root
2005-01-06 19:35     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-06 20:31       ` OT Re: Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation Stephen Pollei
2005-01-06 21:32         ` root
2005-01-06 21:55           ` Måns Rullgård
2005-01-06 22:27             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-06 23:16             ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-01-06 22:27           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-07  2:16             ` root
2005-01-07 13:03           ` Helge Hafting
2005-01-07 18:00             ` root
2005-01-08 14:17               ` Helge Hafting
2005-01-12  7:03       ` Cherokee Nation Posts Open Source Legisation - Invites comments from Community Members christos gentsis
2005-01-12  8:49         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-01-12 17:18           ` root
2005-01-12 20:17             ` Stephen Pollei
2005-01-12 21:05               ` jmerkey
2005-01-13  8:21             ` Daniel Egger
2005-01-12 18:19         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-01-16 16:13         ` Rik van Riel
2005-01-16 20:25           ` Werner Almesberger [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-06 18:26 root
2005-01-06 19:44 Stephen Warren
2005-01-06 20:19 ` linux-os

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