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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon WΣtte)
- Subject: Re: Stallman and friends
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.142339.28227@kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:23:39 GMT
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- In <1993Jan5.213038.2088@netcom.com> jimlynch@netcom.com (Jim Lynch) writes:
-
- >How fo you feel about software patents? If you're threatened by ideas that
- >the FSF espouse, such as my right to write anything I damn well please, I
- >hereby threaten you. How do you like me now?
-
- Well, I have mixed feelings.
-
- 1) If I cook up something on my own and code it, I should be free
- from liability
- 2) If someone diassembles that something and uses the algorithm,
- he should not be free from liability
-
- Maybe a limited kind of patent that lasts for say 5 years, like
- they have in the medical business (only there it's 2 years)
-
- And software lends itself to licensing readily; you could imagine
- a global ftp site with patented algorithm example implementations
- for study & use, coupled with the address to obtain licensing...
-
- Cheers,
-
- / h+
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
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