OSI Approves Microsoft Licenses

[Richard Bennett]

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 01:50:46 +0200, Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Seriously though, Stallman's whole quest to save the world from
> proprietary software got started because he lacked an open printer
> driver:
> http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch01.html
> And it just ballooned from there.

Like the guy who went to court and quashed 21 of the 26 parts of amazon's  
'one-click' patent, because he was miffed that a book took too long too  
deliver:

"He said at the time that it was a simply a hobby borne of an interest in  
patents and a frustration with an order for a book from Amazon that took  
too long to arrive."

http://www.theregister.com/2007/10/17/amazon_1-click_patent_ruling/