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Article #73507Re: Patents
From: geyer
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1991 18:58
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 1991 18:58
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In article <1991Sep2.022713.24921@midway.uchicago.edu> I wrote:
What should not be allowed is any charge of patent infringement based on
purely mathematical isomorphism. One should have to copy some code or some
circuitry. Something more than the mathematics should be involved.
In article <TMB.91Sep2065656@volterra.ai.mit.edu> tmb@ai.mit.edu
(Thomas M. Breuel) writes:
> This is called a "copyright". There is little question that copyrights
> on software are a good idea, and groups like the LPF do not oppose
> software copyrights.
I'm not against copyrights on code either. But wasn't the only point
I was making.
Charles Geyer
Department of Statistics
University of Chicago
geyer@galton.uchicago.edu
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,9434f7b17f215464 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-09-02 13:03:22 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!asuvax!ncar!midway!news From: geyer@galton.uchicago.edu Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patents Message-ID: <1991Sep2.185846.28916@midway.uchicago.edu> Date: 2 Sep 91 18:58:46 GMT References: <BURLEY.91Sep1202411@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1991Sep2.022713.24921@midway.uchicago.edu> <TMB.91Sep2065656@volterra.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress) Reply-To: geyer@galton.uchicago.edu (Charles Geyer) Organization: Department of Statistics Lines: 21