Promotion of software patents == opposition to Open Source.

Brian Behlendorf brian at collab.net
Fri Jan 16 21:05:38 UTC 2004


On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Ken Brown wrote:
> I'd like to know this too.  This intrigues me.  Is IBM's proposition
> that they can make money with both IP and open source incorrect?

Of course they can.

> In my opinion, I do not believe that they IBM's model has a long-term
> future.  IP inextricably competes with the existence of GPL open source
> and open source in general.

You're drinking SCO's Kool-Aid.

	Brian

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