[MPlayer-dev-eng] Two feasible solutions to avoid troubles caused by trivial software patents

[Dirk]

Rich Felker wrote:

>On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 10:46:27PM +0200, Dirk wrote:
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>>Luca Barbato wrote:
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>>>Dirk wrote:
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>>>>Well, Im retarded enough to believe that "in a few years" sounds better
>>>>than european-lobbywhore-union's "as soon as possible".
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>>>I'm tempted to say "Sure you are retarded". Well, maybe you miss the point:
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>>>1 you have to fight for your rights and then escape here or there.
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>>Isn't that what people in your precious free countries call "terrorism"
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>>>2 China isn't the best place to talk about freedom.
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>>We were talking about software patents and not political CNN-like
>>propaganda that is used to deceive the loss of freedom in the own
>>country for the sake of security.
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>>Dirk
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>since this entire discussion is completely ot, can we end it? dirk is
>not a developer and is not trying to help with development, just
>flaming us about politics, an area in which he seems to be incredibly
>naive...
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>rich
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Naive is just another word for unbiased.

But you're right... fuck this. If there is a place where great projects
like MPlayer can continue to exist someone might fork and stop you from
flushing years of development down the toilet for some illusions.

Dirk