On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 08:54, WipeOut wrote: > <rant> > This is one area where IBM, Novell, HP, Redhat and many of the other big > players in the Linux and Open Source world seem to have been very quiet!! Obviously you missed the 'patent promise' link on the bottom of _every_ redhat.com webpage then? To spare you the effort, here's the link.. http://www.redhat.com/legal/patent_policy.html > Obviously they would all be happy if the patents came in because they > would stand to gain finacially from it as they have the money to also go > on a patent spree.. It's amazing how those without the facts feel compelled to invent some of their own rather than spend five minutes researching the issue. Dave