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butcher@g.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Lawrence Butcher) writes:

|My opinion on Software patents:

|Also note that one way to get a patent destroyed is to show that an idea was
|published before the patent was applied for.  One of many reasons that the
|GNU bibliographies should name as many references as possible.  It might be
|a good idea for people to post hare-brained ideas about software to this
|forum so that the idea will become unpatentable.

I think this might be an *excellent* idea. Perhaps the LPF could start
collecting and publishing a list of "thought of before" ideas, categorized
by subject area.

If we all do some blue-skyin' there is a significant enough collection of
talent that we could probably severely frustrate many future attempts to
patent software.

Anyone agree?
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***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean