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- From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
- Subject: [Patents] Re: [FYI] BMWi Workshop on SWPAT
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 08:12:48 +0200 (CEST)
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 PASIJA@cs.com wrote:
> > You no longer know whether you have the right to use the software you
> > wrote.
>
> You seldom have the right to use what you invented. Best you can do is top
> others from using, making, selling and importing it. This is so because most
> inventions are improvements over unexpired patents of others.
How true!
That's a reason why many software authors and companies are keen not
to have their computer programs treated as "inventions".
--
Hartmut Pilch http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
80000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
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