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04-10-2007, 10:07 AM	#1
monsm Member Registered: Feb 2005 Location: London, UK Distribution: Gentoo Posts: 568 Rep:	Software Patents Hi, I was browsing around today and came across this article: http://beranger.org/index.php?article=2787 It's a good example of how US Software patents affect Linux today. My question is, especially if anyone with some legal knowledge reads this, why doesn't distributions based in places without software patents simply make distributions where functions of the kind mentioned in that article is enabled by default? E.g. At least for the time being, there is no such thing as Software Patent in the EU area. Does any distributions today actually take this view? Mandriva? Any other? I guess Suse have "emigrated" after being bought by Novell.... Mons

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