Fotango - an enemy of perl development and developers?

TeeJay on 2005-06-24T09:58:24

While Fotango is supporting perl development with one hand it continues to secretly patent trivial and obvious software ideas with the other.

While fotango is able to contribute to perl development it is at the same time building a portfolio, together with Cannon, it's parent company, to ensure that they can sue you for any of a number web development techniques.

Of course in their nice open source warm fuzzy statements they don't mention they've got a wad of software patents ready to kill any business and stiffle any development that might affect their profits or their parent companies, or that they could use to suck undeserved licensing from hard working developers and businesses.


canon software patents

TeeJay on 2005-06-24T10:49:07

heres one thats pretty nasty : http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB2403306&F=0

Canon has > 800 software patents fotango contributes to this portfolio : http://v3.espacenet.com/results?sf=a&FIRST=1&CY=ep&LG=en&DB=EPODOC&TI=&AB=softwa re&PN=&AP=&PR=&PD=&PA=canon&IN=&EC=&IC=&=&=&=&=&=

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Aristotle on 2005-06-24T17:04:56

Just a request/hint/whatever: comments are invisible to your RSS-based readers. You may want to edit your initial post instead of replying to it, unless explicitly want to hide some addition from them.