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

["David C. Kerber" <dkerber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Armin Faltl
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 8:52 PM
> To: gEDA user mailing list
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: A little puzzled about the purpose of gschem
> 
> 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.

Good point!



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