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Article #75431Re: look-n-feel: cost without benefit
From: Bruce Karsh
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 06:23
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 06:23
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In article <10645@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes: > Then make the term two years after application and/or three years >after first publication in software. That would let people who come up >with a novel idea have a few years to write the software, and a few >years to gain some reward from being inventive, I think you need to review your addition. If it takes a few years to write the software and a few years to gain some reward, then 2-3 years of patent protection is clearly inadequate. Bruce Karsh karsh@sgi.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,69b36400835d49c9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-06 00:54:44 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!sgi!karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com From: karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: look-n-feel: cost without benefit Message-ID: <66149@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 6 Aug 90 06:23:19 GMT References: <10063@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <10645@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Sender: karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com Reply-To: karsh@trifolium.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 13 Posted: Mon Aug 6 07:23:19 1990