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Patents: Free Software under serious threat
lazygamer:
So when it comes to free software and patents, US has lost the battle, Europe is fighting the battle, but what of Canada? Did Canada lose this battle like the US already, or has it just not been brought up yet?
Maybe some of the Canadian MESers could answer this...
Stryker:
quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:
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After thinking. I think software patenting should be illegal, but Idea and workflow and specific features on computers or in software should be patentable. Like 1 Click. Or Piles. Those are both ways of doing thing, they are ideas.
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Does that sound insane to anyone else? Eventually someone would patent the double click, then the triple click, and so forth. You'd move to key combinations for a task like clicking. The combinations would eventually get so long and complex, it'd be like typing in a domain name to click a file menu (which you have to get permission to use). You'd think that a nice guy would patent something easy like a 4-click method and make it public, but we know microsoft will buy everything convinient. You should NOT be able to patent a method (like clicking).
Faust:
Charles Babbage must be hella sore at all these Intel, AMD, Apple and Sun goons stealing his patented work. Damn pirates that's what they are. And Ada Lovelace must be pretty pissed off at Windows / Linux / Sun / BSD etcetera. Bastards stole her patented "programming" concept. Hey I wonder if anyone has patented keyboards yet? I'm going to run down to my local patent office, see if I can claim these things as mine. Holy hell I could raise prices to like $200 per keyboard! :D
oh and:
http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html
flap:
quote:Originally posted by jeffberg: Mac Capitalist:
Without it, wut is the point of inventing an idea, a workflow, a way of doing something. You can't make any money off of it, you have no way to prove u invented it, and everyone will copy you. Doesn't sound very worth inventing something if that is what will happen.
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Yes, because of course before the patent office existed nothing was ever invented.
Calum:
you can't "invent" an idea. no fucking wonder your US patent laws are so fucked if you can't even figure that out.
You can "invent" a bicycle (well you can't now, somebody already did that) but you cannot invent a software model of a bicycle.
oh, what's the use?
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