[ Thanks to Chao-Kuei
Hung for this link. ]
“And a mono skeptic like me would vote, (by this very
blog post by the way) by saying, “I, Chao-Kuei Hung, recommend my
employer, Chaoyang University of Technology, to use software linked
with gtk and qt. I am willing to donate one full year’s salary to
my Univ if my Univ ever gets threatened by or has to pay for
patents directly related to these libraries.” BtW, one can vote for
more than one library, as I did.“Now, the point is not that the employer would really accept the
recommendation because of the assurance of a non-lawyer Chao-Kuei
Hung. (In fact my Univ completely ignores even my repeated
recommendations to use ODF for long term archiving considerations.
They wouldn’t even know what mono is, and they wouldn’t care even
if I were a law professor.) And the point is not that anyone would
care about me losing one year’s salary to my employer when bad
things about patents happen.”