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In article <19049@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes:
>[...] Unfortunately, copyright does not have a
>limitation time and so one cannot expect a similar expansion of the
>competition in the area of desktops or other user interfaces.


Actually, copyright does have a limited time.  Unfortunately, for copyrights
held by a corporation, the time is 75 years, which is the same as forever for
software (it's longer than software has been around!)

Maybe if software copyrights only lasted, say 2 or 3 years, then the whole
issue wouldn't be such a big deal; it wouldn't be such a hardship to have to
wait that length of time.  Even if the copyright lasted 5 years, then most of
the cases going on now would be moot.  Certainly the GNU project would be in
no trouble, since UNIX has been around a lot longer than that.

   Robert