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Article #75447Re: Patents (was Re: Copyrights)
From: Bruce Karsh
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 19:29
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 1990 19:29
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In article <970025@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes: >Do I believe that anybody will invest into software products that can only >be patented for 5 years? Of course I do. Look at all the investment that >has been going on, without any patent protection at all. 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. If intellectual property protection for software is abolished, there'll be very little new investment in the software industry. I resent that people in my profession want to rip-off other's work and they want the law to approve of their rip-off. It's a real sad commentary on software developers circa 1990. Hopefully we'll get past it and go on to creating new software. Bruce Karsh karsh@sgi.com
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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 18:19:26 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!decwrl!sgi!karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com From: karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Patents (was Re: Copyrights) Message-ID: <66187@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 6 Aug 90 19:29:50 GMT References: <MERNST.90Jul28233614@emu.lcs.mit.edu> <970025@gore.com> Sender: karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com Reply-To: karsh@trifolium.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 20 Posted: Mon Aug 6 20:29:50 1990