Re: [Patents] You have rights.. Software Patents are Illegal

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 00:01 -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
>       In the US, software copyright is useful for EXACT copying.

Which is what copyright is about...

> Beyond that, software copyright is completely impotent.

Wrong. You say that because you have absolutely no idea how hard it is
to create from scratch a program that does the same, or looks the same
way another does.

You have absolutely no ideia what's to program.

If what you said was true, then why are competition word processors so
impotent to deal properly with Microsoft's formats?

This is simply one form of proving you wrong, there are countless others
and I have things more important to do than exhaust them by writing them
to someone who is more blind than a real blind person due to his
unwillingness to understand (to put it in the best perspective
possible).

>   For executables,
> that helps stop piracy (I can resell copies of Microsoft Windows).
> But for source codes, like open source, copyright is pretty useless -
> a few cosmetic changes to the source code, and I escape infringement.

Wrong. You can tell that to people like the netfilter guys, who have
successfully used Copyright law to enforce the GPL with a few companies
already, not only forcing them to respect the GPL but also to donate
money to the FSF.

>       But not with patents.

Of course not. Patents on software restrict human thought.

>   Which is why more and more businesses
> spending their own money, big and small businesses, are turning to patents.
> Good or bad, it is the only effective protection against big companies
> stealing your software ideas.

This is so twisted you are either dumb or trying to fool me.

I am not a fool mister. Software patents are wrong. They have no economy
justification, there is math proof that they are absurd and really hurt
innovation.

Plus, the "starving genious" mith never convinced me, and never will it
convince anyone who isn't braindead.

1 patent vs thousands    who wins?

Go away, please.

Rui

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