@cindy because what I do as my daily job since Nov'04 is open source product series - and I see gap between reality and your post. - silpol
Silpol, if you are working on an OS project for your job, then you aren't part of what I'm talking about. I clearly delineated those companies who OS their software. - Cyndy
@cyndy no, it is not just project - it is long standing program on exploring into open-source as way of thinking in whole company, and we do often go VERY close to what is open source "there, outdoors"... like running particular small projects intentionally as non-company one's... or running it with low costs incurred still outdoors... and going through juggling with licensing nightmare... I can make it longer to make you clear how close we are to true FOSS. - silpol
the only true problem is legal one - US is worst legal territory in world, it is merely shark pool with no real value... I would personally sign order to carpet-bomb whole place if I knew how to get all lawyers in one place (no, this is NO joke), just to clean up and show rest of world what shall be done with all US legal system. - silpol
Wow, silpol, tell us how you really feel. - J. Phil
silpol, we do have a mess, but we aren't the only country like that. Tech moves way too fast for laws to keep up in any country. - Cyndy
@noah no BL business here - I used to serve as officer in USSR Air Force, exactly that part which had US coverage down to Mexico... the joke was that worst part of job is rubbering off America from map ;) - silpol
@cindy I'm sorry but whole notion of precendent law and IPR comes from US - silpol
@silpol: precedent law comes from the UK, and, somehow, from Roman laws (which were 'discovered' by judges, not 'designed' by lawmakers). it has its drawbacks, sure %) but it also have certain merits. OTOH, IPR has only drawbacks. - 9000
@9000 in UK they have at least a decent excuse - they have no Constitution as we know it ;) - silpol
