[OT] Microsoft filled patent applications for scoped and immutable types

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:43:23 +0000
Joakim via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> This is what guys like Stallman or ketmar don't seem to get, that 
> mixed-source still leads to _more_ open source
which was used to produce vendor-locked smartphone. bwah, what's good
in this "open source" then? "look but don't touch"?

and i won't buy freedroid/cyanogen too: they are in the same jail due
to hardware drivers (especially videodrivers), which are blobs again.
yes, they can make workarounds, but... working on workarounds for
proprietary software neither fun nor good.

so yes, i don't care about *that* *kind* of "open source". "you are
free but you must report yourself to police once per day" != "free".

RMS is not a fanatic and his "all or nothing" strategy has solid
foundation behind it. there are no "partially pregnant" women and there
is no "partially open" software. "partially open" means "closed".
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