From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-19 10:16:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsfeed.news2me.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny02.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Ed Falis Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Patent Concerns => New Black Markets? Message-ID: <20030819131158.34a38f97.falis@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: References: X-Newsreader: Sylpheed version 0.9.4claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 17:16:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.162.244.51 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny02.gnilink.net 1061313406 68.162.244.51 (Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:16:46 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 13:16:46 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41727 Date: 2003-08-19T17:16:46+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 11:31:01 -0700 "Robert C. Leif" wrote: > Why do you want a system that discriminates against software > inventors? Because of people like the guy who claimed to have invented "threads" in 1986 that a patent lawyer asked my opinion of? Or the one who claimed to have invented the call stack in the early 80's? Or some of the many other patents granted to large corporations for common practice algorithms, so they could use them to muscle other people in the industry? - Ed