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From: Marius Amado Alves <maa@liacc.up.pt>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Right to use vs. sue (was: No call for Ada...)
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Date: 2004-04-30T16:00:20+01:00

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=
=2E
>
> 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 problemati=
c.=20
The issue is copyrighting source-code. I still fail to see why *that* is =
more=20
problematic than copyrighting, say, books.