Re: ``Software floods the patent office'' (review)

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From: Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 1991 01:44

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Lawrence C. Foard:
   I think the best way to fight software patents may be to purposely
   abuse them as much as possible. For example gnu could patent
   everything that isn't nailed down already, then require enormous
   licensing fees if the idea is used in for pay software (no license
   required for free software). Suddenly the big software patent
   advocates would experience the damage done by bad patent law first
   hand.

The difference between patents and copyrights is that patents are
expensive to obtain.  A direct mapping of GNU or FSF onto patents
would take a lot of dollars.

Though possibly less than a lobbying effort.

-- 
Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell
<rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>

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