Is it off topic if it could affect the Fedora Project.
Yes. It is off-topic.
A billion other things could affect the Fedora Project, including SuSe's evolution now that Novell owns it, IBM's business strategies that might modify its funding for Linux, the state of the US economy and the job market, major economic indicators in Europe, and increased Chinese adoption of Red Flag Linux. All of those, and many others, could affect the Fedora Project.
However, they are still *all* off-topic as regards the use and continued development of Fedora Linux. On a list that gets 6,000 messages a month, where users are being driven to unsubscribe by the sheer volume of crud in their mailbox, we are well-advised to exercise some restraint in how much philosophical discussion goes on. Besides, this is not news... we all know that MS is patenting everything they can, and most people already have their opinions made up about patents and their merits or lack thereof.
Nothing to see here... let's move along.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
