Re: False assumptions re: patents

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From: Fernando Manuel Vasconcelos
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1991 10:29

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In article <TIM.91Mar7152958@kahlo.cstr.ed.ac.uk> tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes:
>But that doesn't make it legal, any more than murdering someone and
>not getting caught makes it legal.  Whether you get caught is not
>relevant to whether you think the system is just, which I think is
>what this discussion is about?  On the other hand, unenforcable laws
>are probably not a good thing, and software patents may well turn out
>to be just that -- another argument for doing something about them I
>think.

Yes. This is another serious problem. Of course it can be solved but again
at the expense of may dollars.

The mechanism for enforcing a fair system seems to me more and more expensive
as this discussion goes on.

Previously I had forgotten the price of policying the system ...

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