🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <58757@bbn.BBN.COM> cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell) writes:


>   rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>
>  }I resent the fact that you're accusing people of trying to rip off when all
>  }they want to do is sit down and write code without having a lawyer look
>  }over every damned line.  Patent law denies the existence of independent
>  }invention.  It denies the existence of prior discovery.
>
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***}I don't want to rip anybody off.  I want to write my own code without***
***}having somebody else take a pound of my flesh for the privilege.     ***
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Dick has, IMHO, has hit the nail on the head here!


>                                                     Just because you
>  have a lathe in your basement doesn't mean that you can just go off and
>  sell anything you can manage to machine up.  

Why not?


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