Re: [SLUG] considering open sourcing my app

From: Levi Bard (levi@bard.sytes.net)
Date: Thu May 15 2003 - 13:32:23 EDT


> BTW, someone mentioned patents... That's a bad idea. If you patent some
> software-thingy, a lot of people will hate you, and that's not something
> you want. Generally, software patents make people/organizations look
> bad. (ala Amazon).

Additionally, I think that a patent on the idea would be incompatible with
GPL on the implementation. That would be like saying, "I'm patenting the
wheel, and giving away these free wheel kits, but if you use the wheel kit
to make a wheel, I'm suing!"

Levi



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