From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: "David O'Toole" <dto1138@gmail.com>
Cc: stephen@xemacs.org, joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: strokes-mode and touchscreen patents? was Re: emacs and touchscreen
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 01:00:42 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Pei8w-0007E3-Tb@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=tA4ncw+R0qD+y_itFi3ad2O6guosOQP2SzAr9@mail.gmail.com> (dto1138@gmail.com)
If I do by some chance strike it rich, I would want to fund prior art research.
Prior art exists only for some patents, so looking for it is a very laborious
way to solve only part of teh problem.
It is better to fund the campaign to abolish software patents.
That is an easier path.
--
Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org, www.gnu.org
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-17 6:00 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
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 [this message]
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