Re: [Fwd: Software patent protest, could kde participate ?]
Rob Kaper <[email protected]>
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 08:06:44PM -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Are software patents a good thing or a bad thing? > > Please compare to copyright and trade secret. Copyright: good. If limited in duration. Trade secrets: good. It just means you don't disclose what you're doing, but there's no protection in it for you. Patents: in theory a good thing, the problem is not so much the patent system but the complete incompetent manner of handling requests and checking validity, prior art and the likes. Rob -- Rob Kaper | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little [email protected] | temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." www.capsi.com | - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759
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