Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck
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Tue Apr 10 19:04:33 UTC 2007
On Monday 09 April 2007, Andy Green wrote:
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513-5375070.html
Quote from the article from the above link
<Start>
An artifact of current patent law in the United States is
that companies and individuals are discouraged from seeing
if their products infringe, Ravicher said.
"If you have knowledge and are found to infringe, a court
can punish you," tripling financial penalties, Ravicher
said. "If you say you didn't know and didn't see it, a
court can't punish you. It's a screwed-up rule."
Linux founder and leader Linus Torvalds has taken that
approach. "Finding patent infringement has always been a
responsibility of the patent holders," he said in a 2003
interview. "It is a fact that I do not encourage engineers
to look up patent information."
<End>
This is probably why no one is saying anything.
This time lack of Knowledge is power.
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