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- From: Gregory Aharonian srctran@world.std.com
- Subject: [Patents] Re: french views
- Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2000 12:06:39 -0400 (EDT)
>Any real professional in the software business knows that this business
>works quite well with copyright and sometimes even without that.
Sorry Hartmut, but that is pretty much nonsense. Look at two big
cases in the US - Apple v. Microsoft and Lotus v. Borland. Both
Apple and Lotus lost in courts trying to use copyrights to protect
their user interface "logicality" or whatever. Other copyright
cases for software have proved just as losing. Maybe in Europe
copyright is still useful protection for software, but not in the
US.
In fact, one of the reasons for the explosion of software patents
here in the US in the 1990s was the weakening of copyright in the
1980s, a weakening trend that is still happening.
Greg Aharonian
- [Patents] Re: french views, Pierre BREESE pb
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