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From: |
Dora Scilipoti |
Subject: |
www/philosophy stallman-mec-india.html |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Oct 2012 20:13:02 +0000 |
CVSROOT: /web/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Dora Scilipoti <dora> 12/10/04 20:13:02
Modified files:
philosophy : stallman-mec-india.html
Log message:
Fix typos (RT #773610).
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.24&r2=1.25
Patches:
Index: stallman-mec-india.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/philosophy/stallman-mec-india.html,v
retrieving revision 1.24
retrieving revision 1.25
diff -u -b -r1.24 -r1.25
--- stallman-mec-india.html 1 Oct 2012 17:40:18 -0000 1.24
+++ stallman-mec-india.html 4 Oct 2012 20:13:01 -0000 1.25
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@
it wasn't new. But that doesn't matter, he had a monopoly.</p>
<p> Eventually we found another compression algorithm which is used in the
-program that's known as GISA. But this illustrates the danger that you
+program that's known as GZIP. But this illustrates the danger that you
face: even if you had unlimited resources, you couldn't find out about
all the patents that might endanger your project. But you can find out
about the issued patents because they are published by the patent office.
@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@
the reason is that they own many patents themselves and they use them
to force cross-licensing. What does this mean? Well, essentially the
only defense against patents is deterrence: you have to have patents of
-your own, then you hope that if somebody points a patent you, you will
+your own, then you hope that if somebody points a patent at you, you will
be able point a patent back and say “don't sue me, because I'll
sue you.”</p>
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@
I saw a Supreme Court decision from something like 1954, which had a
long list of patents that were invalidated by the Supreme Court starting
in the 1800's. And they were utterly ridiculous, like making a certain
-shape of doorknob out of rubber, when previously they've been made out
+shape of doorknob out of rubber, when previously they'd been made out
of wood. And this decision rebuked the patent system for going far,
far away from the proper standards. And they just keep on doing it.</p>
@@ -2128,7 +2128,7 @@
<p> Updated:
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-$Date: 2012/10/01 17:40:18 $
+$Date: 2012/10/04 20:13:01 $
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</p>
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