sorry i dont have time to read everything as u dont highlight ur point and simply just copy paste stuff from absolutely random links, however here is ur own qote:
There is
tremendous animosity in the
free software community towards software patents. Much of this has been caused by
free software/
open source projects shutting downwhen the holders of patents covering aspects of a project demanded license fees that the project c
ould not or was not willing to pay or offered licenses under terms which the project was unwilling to accept, or could not accept because it conflicted with the open source license in use'
what u see here is a perfect example of high headedness of the OSS people who think that just because they are making something for free gives them every right to use codes and other technical aspects of some 1 else's work, the person who originally created that feels that he should be repayed and reimbursed for his work and that no 1 else copies/modifies his work and then takes credit which OSS loves to do, take something modify it and then give it away for free thereby taking a lot of good will and credit and the person who originally created something gets thenga, this is just like what u said in the drm thread where u supported piracy as compared to giving due credit and money to the people who made the jodha akbar music u are listening to
and i will say this again:
if some1 copies an already patented idea it is not innovation anymore