Software Patents will eradicate freeware?

[Elias]

http://www.videolan.org/patents.html so what's up with that? Is it because of all these fat politicians we will not have kick ass software like VLC and Linux?

[jggimi]

This issue has been discussed here before. Please see my .sig, below.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=86965&highlight=patent
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=91508&highlight=patent