Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9

[Ed Greshko]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> I think there would be an interesting legal argument that nearly all
> potential users have already paid the relevant patent royalties
> indirectly in the form of drivers and other software provided by the
> hardware vendors of the devices in question (and included in the cost),
> or in the copy of Windows they were essentially forced to buy with the
> computer.  Since they have paid to use the covered algorithms and since
> patents cover the process not specific instances, they should be
> permitted to use a version of it that actually works.  Of course I don't
> want to spend my own money to test this argument...

Could you say that again in English?