Hi all<br>No offense, but could you please rename the topic with "patents something" instead of keyboard mockup ? I let you choose the right one though.<br>thanks in advance.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/1/15 Arthur Marsh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arthur.marsh@internode.on.net">arthur.marsh@internode.on.net</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Chris Samuel wrote, on 2009-01-13 18:42:<br>
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 5:11:45 am Stefan Monnier wrote:<br>
><br>
>>> [1] - which is ironic given that they were invented to encourage people<br>
>>> to publish their ideas rather than keep them secret.<br>
>> Actually, not so ironic: it basically means that rather than keeping<br>
>> them as internal secrets, they get to lock them in<br>
>> a government-provided vault.<br>
><br>
> Where everyone can read them and the protection expires after a time.<br>
><br>
> Don't get me wrong, I think patents are bad, especially these days where the<br>
> techniques are often obsolete before the patent expires. :-(<br>
<br>
But the software patent is undecipherable gobbledegook rather than<br>
GPL-mandated copy of source code in its usual form for editing and<br>
development including sensible variable names, comments, makefiles,<br>
build scripts and everything that is not already available in other GPL<br>
packages to make it run.<br>
<br>
Arthur (trying to give the black knight of software patents another<br>
flesh wound).<br>
<br>
<br>
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