[%TAGS (074db819ec% %074db819ec) %]
(074db819ec% IF user.email && action == 'arc' %074db819ec)
(074db819ec% END %074db819ec)
- From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- To: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: John Tobey <jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org>, Stefano Maffulli <stef@zoomata.com>, <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 06:06:03 +0100 (CET)
> >The logic I hope is: patenting ideas is not possible! show me the code and
> >copyright it.
>
> Every copyright system around the world PROHIBITS copyright for ideas.
> Try learning something about IP law before posting such nonsense.
The error is on yourside. He was talking only of "copyrighting the code",
which is entirely possible. "copyrighting the idea" would practicaly mean
the same as "patenting the idea". Indeed it makes no sense to prohibit
copyright for ideas and then allow patents to creep into the void.
also an old refutal.
--
Hartmut Pilch http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
100,000 signatures against software patents http://www.noepatents.org/
- Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software, (continued)
(074db819ec%|loc%074db819ec)Archive powered by(074db819ec%END%074db819ec) MhonArc 2.6.16.
(074db819ec%TAGS [% %]%074db819ec)