From: Marius Amado Alves <maa@liacc.up.pt>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...)
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:00:20 +0100
Date: 2004-04-30T16:00:20+01:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.35.1083335899.313.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnc94ma1.598.randhol+valid_for_reply_from_news@rong.nt.ntnu.no>
On Friday 30 April 2004 14:48, Preben Randhol wrote:
> On 2004-04-30, Marius Amado Alves <amado.alves@netcabo.pt> wrote:
> > Of course not, it's not an intelectual work. I fail to see your point.
>
> Many software patents are not based intelectual work. They are so banal
> that they can be equivalent to the ditch. These patents are there to
> hinder competition.
I don't think patents was the point. I know patenting ideas is problematic.
The issue is copyrighting source-code. I still fail to see why *that* is more
problematic than copyrighting, say, books.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-29 11:08 [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...) amado.alves
2004-04-29 13:49 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-29 14:45 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-04-30 13:00 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-30 22:16 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-04-30 13:48 ` Preben Randhol
2004-04-30 15:00 ` Marius Amado Alves [this message]
2004-04-30 14:40 ` Preben Randhol
2004-04-30 15:21 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-03 8:19 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-03 19:28 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-03 12:08 ` [OT] Right to use vs. sue Georg Bauhaus
2004-05-03 22:02 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-04 7:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-04 9:53 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-04 12:45 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
[not found] ` <8QPlc.22135$3Q4.552939@news20.bellglobal.com>
2004-05-05 11:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-05 16:45 ` Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
2004-05-03 14:22 ` [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...) Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-05-04 1:40 ` Marius Amado Alves
2004-05-04 8:57 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2004-04-29 15:27 ` Martin Krischik
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