LW Panel report: Tux on the desktop, schools, and patent foolishness discussed : Mon, 18 Oct 2004

John Leyden of The Register writes about a panel he attended at Linux World London. In it, there are industry predictions of Linux breaking through on the desktop in 2005, conditions on how Linux might break into heavy educational use (if it ever comes prepackaged, supported, that is), and a warning to Europe from America regarding how patent legislation can really squash innovation by little guys, or by little companies.

Here's hoping Europe gets it right, because the current patent situation here in America is as stupid and stifling as it comes. There are legal clearinghouses that do nothing but think up vague patentable ideas, patent them, and then lie in wait for real innovators to actually make the thing that does the thing. Ridiculous. --CG   Source: http://www.uhacc.org/cgi-bin/blosxom.cgi

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