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From: "David O'Toole" <dto1138@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs- devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: strokes-mode and touchscreen patents? was Re: emacs and touchscreen
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:00:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=O8coLLVtCRxYs5bW+0Hd3SVui28kA8kBzT+Ag@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvtyhb73e9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> Better not try to find out, since distributing infringing things is
> a more serious offense if you know it's infringing than if you don't.

The distributor in question would be the FSF which has distributed
strokes-mode since (apparently) 1997.

> Just stop worrying about all that crap and instead help fight the
> legality of software patents as a whole.

Can you explain why you think sidestepping a perfectly legitimate due
diligence question about part of Emacs is supposed to help the cause
of eliminating software patents? I've never heard an attorney say
"just stop worrying about all that crap."



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-15 22:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-14 15:20 strokes-mode and touchscreen patents? was Re: emacs and touchscreen David O'Toole
2011-01-14 17:02 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-01-14 18:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-01-15 22:00   ` David O'Toole [this message]
2011-01-17  6:00     ` Richard Stallman
2011-01-16 14:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-01-16 15:10   ` David O'Toole
2011-01-17  6:00     ` Richard Stallman

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