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Re: Santa Brings Microsoft Patents for Editing, Compiling Code
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David Wade |
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Re: Santa Brings Microsoft Patents for Editing, Compiling Code |
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Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:37:35 -0000 |
"David Kastrup" <dak@gnu.org> wrote in message
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> Buford <buford@macrohard.net> writes:
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> > The sheer brazenness of such corruption is shocking, but I guess the
> > corruption really got started when they decided to grant patents for
> > ideas in the first place. It used to be a truism that you couldn't
> > patent ideas, and for all the right reasons. What the hell has
> > happened
As it costs a lot to vet the damm things properley they just don't vet them
any more!
> The same thing that happened when copyright, the law balancing the
> interests of creators and the public, was extended to 90 years after
> the _death_ of the creator, or the expiration date of "Steamhouse
> Willy", whichever is to come last.
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> Money.
>
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> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum