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Article #74582Re: False assumptions re: patents
From: Mike Waters
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 22:21
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1991 22:21
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In article <TIM.91Mar12120234@kahlo.cstr.ed.ac.uk> tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes:
>> The mechanism for enforcing a fair system seems to me more and more expensive
>> as this discussion goes on.
>
>But there is a pretty convincing argument that software patents are
>just about unenforcable with reasonable expense. Surely this is a
>good argument against software patents if nothing else is?
I seem to have missed this argument due to newsfeed deficiencies. Would
someone be so kind as to sumarize?
I can't imagine that policing a software patent is much different than
policing one concerning a circuit design or a process for producing
plastic wigits.
Or is this some bizarre "fair" system that is being proposed having
nothing whatever to do with real world patents?
--
*Mike Waters AA4MW/7 waters@nddsun1.sps.mot.com *
Without ice cream life and fame are meaningless.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,b0a85d23901c1430 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-03-12 19:51:50 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!bu.edu!xylogics!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!nddsun1!waters From: waters@nddsun1.sps.mot.com (Mike Waters) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: False assumptions re: patents Message-ID: <920@nddsun1.sps.mot.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 22:21:10 GMT References: <TIM.91Mar7152958@kahlo.cstr.ed.ac.uk> <1991Mar11.102629.2@minerva.inesc.pt> <TIM.91Mar12120234@kahlo.cstr.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Hacker's haven Lines: 21