Being an acitizen (I'm still working on the definition of that term, and if it ends up being stupid I'll have to think of some other word), I just simply refuse to accept software patents as legitimate claims. Although the laws may be in place, they conflict with my personal beliefs and morals, and are therefore nullified with respect to my little world.
So as far as I'm concerned, this has nothing to do with DSL.
Quote (John @ Dec. 11 2004,18:26)
Just another reason why software patents are a really dumb idea.
USB bootable OS's have been around for a while now. Zipslack has been doing this since what, 99?
Yup. But I think there was one before that.
Can't remember what it was called, and it's long dead.
And Milkshaw, i like the term anticitizen.
-J.P.funny...that's what I'd typed at first, but thought it was a bit too negative. I'm not really against citizenship, but more like a non-member of organized society.
I remember downloading Zipslack a few years ago for a zip disk, but it was parallel rather than USB, so I couldn't get it to boot...of course I was a point-and-clicker at the time....WE ARE OPEN-SOURCE GEEKS, THESE FEEBLE SOFTWARE PATENTS DREAMED UP BY THE DARK FORCES WILL NEVER EVER BE GIVEN THE SLIGHTEST AMOUNT OF NOTICE BY OUR MIGHTY BRETHERIN, AND WE WILL RIDE ON TO VICTORY CARRYING THE HEADS OF THESE DEMONS ON OUR SPEARS, OUR SWORDS RED WITH THEIR BLOOD.
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