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Article #74772Re: The chilling effect of software patents
From: Kenneth Jamieson
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 1991 05:37
Date: Sat, 02 Feb 1991 05:37
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In article <29763@mimsy.umd.edu> leonard@mimsy.umd.edu (Leonard Dickens ) writes: > >It may not be strictly legal. But under questionably just laws. Think >of it as civil disobedience. > >-Leonard Hmmm.. so what you are saying here is that the violation of laws is fine as long as no one can get sued ??? In wich case .. why don't I take GNU Emacs, remove the copyleft, place on that says it is in the Public domain and send it EVERYWHERE I can think of. You would never find me , and there would be no way to stop the PD version from spreading .. you would also never find all the commercial software that that code may be put into. So is that my version of your civil disobedience for the fact that I don't like the copyleft ???? I doubt it. There is NEVER a reason to knowingly violate a federal law. You guys are under the VERY mistaken impression that what I think, what I wrote, and what I discover belong to you by some divine right. You have no such right. If I have a idea, I >OWN< it .. or doesn't the concept of ownership get through to you at all ????? Jeez .. everything I wrote should be free, and if I protect it with laws you are sitting here plotting ways to steal it without getting caught .. very useful... I can really trust the FSF right ??? Hmm... interesting that everywhere else on the net piracy (what you are advocating) is put down .. but in GNU's little corner it seems to be the way you will deal with everything you don't like. What happened to "we wrote it, we can liscence it anyway we want" ... now you are saying "we don't care who wrote/thought it" we will steal it. Hmm.. I wonder , if I take GNU Emacs, and then take a file with one character in it , run "DIFF" and distribute the diff as public domain (I have not technically distributed Emacs, just the info needed to build it) then that would be ok by your rules ?? -- ========[ Xanadu Enterprises Inc. Amiga & Unix Software Development]======= = "I know how you feel, you don't know if you want to hit me or kiss me - = = --- I get a lot of that." Madonna as Breathless Mahoney (Dick Tracy) = =========== Ken Jamieson: uunet!tronsbox.xei.com!tron1 =================== = NONE of the opinions represented here are endorsed by anybody. = === The Romantic Encounters BBS 201-759-8450(PEP) / 201-759-8568(2400) ====
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,3328677f5953435d X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1991-02-02 05:53:10 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!fdurt1!wisdom!tronsbox!tron1 From: tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (Kenneth Jamieson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: The chilling effect of software patents Message-ID: <1306@tronsbox.xei.com> Date: 2 Feb 91 05:37:46 GMT References: <64.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com> <29763@mimsy.umd.edu> Organization: Romantic Encounters BBS Lines: 55