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- From: Gert Wollny wollny@cns.mpg.de
- Subject: [Patents] Re: ICANN elections -- Endorsement of a candidate -- URGENT
- Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 10:43:43 +0200
Didier Metzen wrote:
>
> What do you think of copyright? It is also ownership on any kind of ideas.
No, it is only the ownership of _your_ _implementation_ of the idea.
Others may implement the same idea using their own technics without any
restrictions.
IOW: If i write code today, i own it (copyright), and everything is
fine.
If software becomes patentable, I'll have to spend significant
resources, to find out, if the idea behind the code is already proteced
by a patent. And since most software patents cover very simple ideas,
this becomes a nightmare. This is one of the reasons, why software
patents are a Bad Thing (TM).
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