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Article #73331Re: We've been doing it all wrong!
From: Joe Buck
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1991 19:13
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 1991 19:13
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In article <NELSON.91Oct6082021@sun.clarkson.edu>, nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) writes:
|> We've been trying to kill software patents the wrong way! What we need
|> to do is patent every damn thing we can think of, and make the
|> license fee require the use of the GPL. A few basic patents on things,
|> and we'd have the industry sewn up. The software business community would
|> scream for the abolishment of software patents.
|>
|> The only flaw in this plan is the cost of patenting something. :(
Interesting. This is basically what the GPL does with respect to copyrights:
it uses copyright law to defeat one of the main uses of copyright, i.e. to
restrict distribution.
--
Joe Buck
jbuck@galileo.berkeley.edu {uunet,ucbvax}!galileo.berkeley.edu!jbuck
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,aa5501946ed00cc5 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-10-06 12:23:00 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!forney.berkeley.edu!jbuck From: jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu (Joe Buck) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: We've been doing it all wrong! Message-ID: <1991Oct6.191306.15168@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 6 Oct 91 19:13:06 GMT References: <NELSON.91Oct6082021@sun.clarkson.edu> Sender: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu (USENET Administrator) Distribution: gnu Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18