Re: The future of comp.patents

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From: breiing
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 10:42

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In <4656@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> sps@email.sp.unisys.com (Steven P. Skabrat) writes:

>  Call it capitalistic greed, conservatism, whatever.  But
>thats what the United States copyright and patent systems are based on.
>Its worked for over 200 years and look where our country is
>technologically because of it. 

The U.S. has probably the number one position in computer software,
and it got there *without* software patents. I think that is an
impressive point in favour of applying the copyright (rather that
patent) system to software. It isn't broke; then why try fix it,
especially when there's serious doubts about the proposed "fix?"

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