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- You are 100% spot on. Copyright is meaningless to software.
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As you indicated (and every programmer worth his salt knows) it's easy to swap a few lines of code around so that it's "different".
As an aside: I see NOTHING to indicate innovation is being held back at all. What I do see is open source folks complaining they can't copy everyone as they have in the past. Notice one thing, these folks wern't sayig anything about software patents until they realised open source is in danger of being faced with the same laws all others are. Now they are in a panick... - Posted by: No_Ax_to_Grind Posted on: 12/10/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
MS should win this on appeal
Robertbrice | 12/09/04
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I'm split
Roger Ramjet | 12/10/04
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The first time's the hardest
rapson | 12/10/04
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But MS is not out of the woods...
nomorems | 12/10/04
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What a plain silly post...
No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/10/04
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Software Shouldn't Be Patentable
Kamikaze_Ohka | 12/10/04
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I Agree...
IT_Critic | 12/10/04
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That should have been...
IT_Critic | 12/10/04
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Yes and no
rapson | 12/10/04
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Dead on
IT Scion | 12/10/04
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Yes, patents protect large corporations...
Anton Philidor | 12/10/04
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The little guy
tic swayback | 12/10/04
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The problem with your argument.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/10/04
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Technological Development.
Kamikaze_Ohka | 12/10/04
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Hmmm, sounds like your upset about open source...
No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/10/04
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Why doesn't copyright also stifle innovation?
rapson | 12/10/04
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You are 100% spot on. Copyright is meaningless to software.
No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/10/04
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Carl, notice...
No_Ax_to_Grind | 12/10/04
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So what's your take on this?
Taz_z | 10/31/05
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What do you think?
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