Fedora/RH policies sometimes suck

[linuxmaillists at charter.net]

On Tuesday 10 April 2007, linuxmaillists at charter.net wrote:
> 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.

Correction the above article is from the link below which 
was reached from the other link.

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5291403.html

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