Re: Patents (was Re: Copyrights)

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From: Jerry Callen
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 23:10

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In article <66187@sgi.sgi.com> karsh@trifolium.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) writes:
>Nearly every software product that's for sale is protected by patents or
>copyrights covering look & feel, or both.
>
>Before this protection, there was no significant software industry. 

Huh?!? On what $#@ planet?!? This look 'n feel crap arose in the mid 1980s.
I don't know about you, but I've been writing and using software since the
late 1960s!

If you mean "personal computer software," I would argue that the development
of a "significant software industry" arose at the same time that a
"significant hardware industry" arose. 

-- Jerry Callen
   jcallen@encore.com

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From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
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Subject: Re: Patents (was Re: Copyrights)
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