2010/6/9 Hong Phuc Dang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hp@gnome.asia">hp@gnome.asia</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">Dear all,<br>
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@Tor: thank you very much for raising the concern. I agree that<br>
political part plays a very important role in any international<br>
conferences.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>One question has to be explicitely addressed here.</div><div><br></div><div>How a country deals with software patents is of great interest to developers. This is one big reason for quite a few developers to explicitely exclude the United States of America from being a host for LGM. Basically, people don’t want to get into judiciary issues while participating is such a conference.</div>
<div><br></div><div>We have to find out just how friendly (or how threatening) the LGM host country is to FLOSS in general and to FLOSS developers in particular.</div><div><br></div><div>Back in May 2007, we had a discussion on that issue in the Create Mailing List.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Here is an excerpt of one exchange between Alexandre Prokoudine and Dave Crossland.</div><div><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
[ AP ] giving proprietary guys even a tiny chance to sue one of our developers should never occur.</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
[ DC ] All developers in the USA are under constant threat of patent violation suits for all code they write. Developing free code to read/write proprietary file formats has an additional risk of breaking the 'technical protection measures' part of the DMCA.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Let’s feed that thread with all relevant information.</div><div><br></div><div>Louis</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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