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Article #75439Re: Patents (was Re: Copyrights)
From: Matt Austern
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 18:24
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 18:24
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In article <66173@sgi.sgi.com>, karsh@trifolium (Bruce Karsh) writes: > >Without protection against plagiarism, there'll be no significant investment >in software development. > There is a vast middle ground between saying that it must be legal to sell verbatim copies of someone else's software, and saying that it should be possible to patent every idea and prevent anyone else from using it for the next 17 years. The phrase "intellectual property" obscures the fact that we must decide what level of protection is socially beneficial, and that so far wehave done a poor job of deciding that. -- Matthew Austern austern@lbl.bitnet It's not very subtle, but, uh, (415) 644-2618 austern@ux5.lbl.gov neither is blowing up a whole school.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,a3783b857baac617 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-08-06 13:19:58 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!hellgate.utah.edu!helios.ee.lbl.gov!austern@ux5.lbl.gov From: austern@ux5.lbl.gov (Matt Austern) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patents (was Re: Copyrights) Message-ID: <6380@helios.ee.lbl.gov> Date: 6 Aug 90 18:24:06 GMT References: <1990Aug1.223920.21363@ico.isc.com> <9008021406.AA24725@stc06.CTD.ORNL.GOV> <66150@sgi.sgi.com> <NELSON.90Aug6100907@image.clarkson.edu> <66173@sgi.sgi.com> Sender: usenet@helios.ee.lbl.gov Reply-To: austern@ux5.lbl.gov (Matt Austern) Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (theory group) Lines: 17 Posted: Mon Aug 6 19:24:06 1990 X-Local-Date: 6 Aug 90 11:24:06 PDT In-reply-to: karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh)