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Article #297Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective
From: Sean Elliott Russell
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 1995 00:00
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: You failed to mention if you hold any patents or copyrights. I am : assuming that all the code you have written is in the public domain : right? After all there is not great deal of difference between a copy : right and a patent in terms of what you are protecting, an idea or way of : doing something. I heartily disagree. There is a large difference between a patent and a copyright. Copyrights force people who want to copy the item to go through the work of producing it themselves. Patents prevent them from even attempting it in the first place. The primary result of this difference is that the first encourages competition and improvement, while the second hinders them. -- // Sean Russell | // ser@cs.uoregon.edu | Nice computers don't go down. // www.cs.uoregon.edu:80/~ser/ | // PGP public key upon request |
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