RedHat and software patents

[Alessandro Rubini]

Alceste:
>         a. you release  your work under the GNU GPL  (if you want to
>            use our patent without paying fees);
> 
>         b. you  pay a  royalty (if you  want to use  another license
>            and/or release a proprietary program)."
>
> I think  that it could  be quite a  realistic hypothesis ---  and it
> could be  the first  software patent

Never heard of the FSMLabs patent?

>                                        that  could be used  to support
> Free Software :-)

I don't call this "support", sorry. Sure other people praise the
approach, but not everybody does. Note the note below, though.
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