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- From: whedon@netcom.com (Bill Whedon)
- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.072028.1507@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest)
- References: <D2150035.mtvsj2@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 07:20:28 GMT
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- In article <D2150035.mtvsj2@outpost.SF-Bay.org> peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
- >I just wanted to thank the large number of folks who sent me email
- >on this subject. It's nice to know there are lots of us who think
- >Stallman is a kook.
-
- I'm not sure that "kook" is the correct term. Perhaps "misdirected would-be
- saviour" is more correct. Of course, I find the idea of software "patents"
- utterly abhorrent. In either (FSF or Patent) situation, the only people who
- will win will, of course, be the lawyers. It's gotten so bad of late, I just
- heard of a law firm splitting a $1.2 million award 66.6/33.4 with a litigant,
- wherein the lawyers got the 66.6 piece of the action.
-
- Stallman, if you're listening, how about directing some of that boundless
- energy of yours toward that sort of problem. What I'd like to see would be a
- system in which lawyers got paid just like any other sort of "agent", at a
- fixed rate of 10 or 15 percent of the pre-tax gross. Want a _real_ windmill,
- Richard? Use that idea to unclog the courts first, then go after the SW
- patent thing, huh?
- Cheers,
- Bill Whedon whedon@netcom.com (just a humble programmer who sells)
- ... hmmmm... just re-read... drop the decimal, you get 666... hmmmmm... ;-)
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