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No they can't patent your child until they get their first swab... Weird story in the guardian this weekend about a new growth business--use of dead people in advertising. It's a great money maker... apparently Corbis (Bill Gates' picture library) is making acquisitions there. Stars as avatars-. -----Original Message----- From: David Lyon [mailto:david.lyon@c...] Sent: 08 April 2005 03:46 To: xml-dev@l... Subject: Re: Open source request.... On Thu, 7 Apr 2005 10:05 am, Karl Waclawek wrote: > 2) For me, it was about using OpenSource and giving back, about sharing > knowledge freely, about doing something against software patents. We now live in an age where we are all walking violations of large drug companies that now "own" the license on parts of our dna, of life itself. It's a crazy system... my wife just had a baby.. yesterday in fact... oops we just violated somebodies patent.... oh darn... > This is a philosophical point of view that not everybody shares. It's a mixed up world alright... No use worrying about things like this.. David -- Computergrid : The ones with the most connections win. ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php>
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