Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software

[Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>]

Hartmut naively writes:
>The error is on yourside.  He was talking only of
>"copyrighting the code" which is entirely possible.

And entirely useless form of protection.  Copyrighting the code only
protects that expression of the code - the variable names you used,
the indenting style of the source, i.e. the visual aspects.

But anything to do with the structure, sequence and organization of
the source code is not protectable by copyright, because all three
are ideas PROHIBITED from copyright protection.

So your solution for rejecting patents and relying on copyright is
equivalent to being against any effective form of protection for
new software ideas.  And probably for ideas in any other field of
technology.

Greg Aharonian