Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem

[Armin Faltl <armin.faltl@xxxxxx>]

I'm here only for a bit over a week, got a lot of help and try to 
contribute something.
In my opinion, even if you were bashing gEDA or parts of it, this would 
be still your
right, while probably no good place. What sounds like bashing in the 
ears of some
contains constructive criticisim in the ears of others maybe.

I didn't say anything about the patent thing yet. Well, I hold some 
patents, not in software.
Studies show, that 80% of all technical knowledge openly available is 
described in patents
only, no books no publications etc. A personal guess of mine is, that a 
similiar number of
patents is expired already. Ignoring that knowledge because of a weird 
sense of political
correctnes...
There are even cases of patents that were acquired to make them open 
source ;-)
There is hardly a better protection imaginable for an OS-implementation 
than an expired
patent.

> I hope that clears things up. If not, I really don't know how to explain
> what I meant any better, so you will have to make do with the knowledge
> that I did not mean to sound like I was bashing gEDA.
>
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