Breakfast with a presidential candidate

[Mark Komarinski]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 09:13:15PM -0500, Bruce Dawson wrote:
> 
> So, with all that out of the way, I was wondering what the Linux/OSS
> community would like for him to hear? What are the issues we have that a
> president can solve?


As a high level idea, a sane IP policy would be really nice.

Copyright extension overhaul, more money to PTO to do real research on
upcoming patents, remove patents on software, and repeal that stupid DMCA.

In all honesty, I think Disney should be able to keep their trademark on
Mickey Mouse and "Steamboat Willie".  Something maybe like treating
copyrights like trademarks after a certain amount of time would be
appropriate.  This would allow Disney to keep their copyrights, but let
other IP (old ROMs, for example) to drop into the public domain.

-Mark
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