[Asterisk-Dev] Re: writing a GPL G.729?

[Brian Capouch]

Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:

> 
> Says you.  Some of us think you're completely, utterly, wrong.  Actual
> innovation does not take place in the big companies with the many
> patent lawyers -- it's happening in the Open Source world, and in the
> small startup companies that grow out of it.
> 

Does anyone here think that Microsoft would have ever been the first to 
write something like Asterisk?

For that matter, does anyone think that Microsoft would have been the 
first to write a windowing GUI, or a web browser, or an audio player, or 
a multiuser, multitasking OS?

Software patents were a mistake made by an ignorant patent office, and 
indeed they will eventually prove to be a huge drag on America's 
financial future. . . IMO, of course.

B.