Re: [Patents] nice Greg newspeak lapse

[Serge Marelli <serge.marelli@linux.lu>]

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 20:11, Gregory Aharonian wrote:

> Software is all process and method and structure.  Last I look, most
> patent systems around the world are there to protect process, method
> and structure.  And last I looked, all copyright systems EXPLICITLY
> prohibit copyright protection for process and method and structure,
> for software.  What's the fundamental component of Java?  METHODS.
> The type of methods denied copyright protection, via Berne, by the
> US, EU, and WIPO copyright statutes.  And unlike patents, copyrights
> last an insane life of the author plus 75 years.  Assuming copyright

That is just too good... the fact that Object Oriented Programming uses
the _term_ "method" does not mean at all that OOP Methods are actually
"methods" as the copyright statutes see the term.  
It's just a name... it used to be called "functions" or "procedure",
when they put together a new theory or a new "paradigm" of programming
they had to find a new buzzword...

Come on... be real.


> Me, I want to make lots of money.  If I can ever come up with a good
> software idea, you can bet your bottles of Guinness I am going to apply
> for a software patent.

I sure believe you there.
And I'll rather DRINK the Guinness (R) than bet it (with you least of
all)

Serge

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