GPL and RAND are incompatible by design

GPL software can't coexist with RAND (Reasonable And Non-Discrimintory) patents because RAND makes you pay for the right to use the patent--and that's verboten in the GPL.

Now personally I think software patents are stupid and shouldn't exist (software is mathematics). But until the laws are changed software pateints exist and are enforcable--and never the twain shall meet.

That has been Stallman's plan all along you know. Kill software patents, along with software that's sold.

The irresistable force is about to meet the immovable object. I wouldn't want to be the one between them...