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Re: Gates Patents Flipping a Light Switch
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz |
Subject: |
Re: Gates Patents Flipping a Light Switch |
Date: |
Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:42:37 -0000 |
begin In <x5wu2fe2u5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>, on 06/10/2004
at 07:32 PM, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> said:
>Uh, you are forgetting one thing: everyone else has the option of
>buying a licence from you. That's the whole point in the first
>place.
In what country? Certainly in the USA the Constitution has a *VERY*
different point for copyrights and patents. A point that is trampled
roughshod when patents are granted for things that are obvious to
practitioners and that are prior art. To say nothing of thumbing noses
at the word "limited".
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