RE: Future of Dolphin Survey

> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:21:35 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Future of Dolphin Survey
> 
> Indeed.  And short-term prohibitions on verbatim copying that prevent
> people from exploiting their first-to-market advantage (which was all
> that the Copyright Act provided until 1907) are one thing,
> century-long deathgrips on everything even vaguely connected
> with the original quite another.

Yes, even 10 year patents are an eternity in technology.  Though most places just use patents like jamming devices; they accumulate as many as they possibly can so if some other company comes trying to sue they can produce an enormous list that the other company is violating.

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