>>I wonder if it's too late in life for me to pick up a New Zealand accent?
>Usually the point you are making is that software should be free once it is created.
>"No patents" does not mean "free software", if that may have been the reason for you to pick up the New Zealand accent.

It means all NZ free/libre open source software developers are free from the threat of prosecution.


>A good explanation of the difference between patent and copyright is found here:
>http://www.askdavetaylor.com/difference_between_software_copyright_and_software_patents.html


Yes, all software should be free. It frees people to use, in an unrestricted form, all of the gifts they possess to help other people. All copyrights and software patents, except copyleft implementations of copyright law, restrict and harm innovation and freedom.

All such controls are evil. Front to back. Top to bottom. Side to side.