[Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 5, Issue 2

[hsuanyeh at gmail.com (Hsuan-Yeh Chang)]

> The open source community cannot benefit from this.  Nobody can, except
for patent trolls.
> Your fellows continue to do everything they possibly can to ensure that
only patent trolls
> benefit from patent law.  Even mega-corporations like Google and Samsung
with massive
> fiscal resources and huge teams of lawyers on their payrolls are finding
it difficult defending
> against the patent law extortion hammers.  How can an all-volunteer open
source project
> with no funding and no attorneys hope to compete?  And you call it fair?
 Sorry, Charlie, but
> I don't buy it.

Don't push things to such an extreme.  There are already enough open source
projects that are supported by non-volunteers.  If you'd argue this way, you
would probably also argue against the use of electricity in your house, as
it kills people when abused.  Yet, people are still using it and cannot get
rid of it in any meaningful way.  Why not ask everyone to power off their
computers to save the earth?

You don't need to buy in anything if you don't want to.  Google has been
reacting to patent threats by owning more patents.  If the open source
decides to continually sailing their carriers without escorts, that's
perfectly fine with me.

HYC