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In article <1991May20.080912.11342@wimsey.bc.ca>, jhenders@wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) writes:
> 
> 	I'm not quite clear on how you've managed to connect software piracy
> with patent protection here. Patent law doesn't protect published software,
> copyrights do. Anyone skilled enough to extract an algorithm from object code
> would hardly be troubled by copy protection. 

I was reasoning by analogy.  Given that vendors are already scared of
appropriation of their technology, without something like patent protection
-- *where it's appropriate* -- we'll see less and less published.