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Easy, Obvious or Simple. It doesn't matter.
Even obvious doesn't matter. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. If the patent was obvious, why didn't you take it out. The reason is it wasn't obvious. You didn't recognize the obviousness until it was defined in the patent. In other words he beat you to it and everyone else. He just cannot patent something on the market older than 366 days or it is prior art.

This is because the Patent Office doesn't have software programmers working there to recognize prior art. This is not a failure of patents but the failure of knowledge. Any system will break down in the hands of folks ignorant of the subject.

There has to be a working model like they use to have. The P.O. quit giving patents on perpetual motion machines because they don't work. Same thing with software. The software folks should havea working model instead of patenting a theory.

As for 17 years that is a little lengthy but as software evolves and becomes more time consuming to deliver, 17 years is not too bad. 12-15 years would be OK to start out at this point.
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great license!  Linux Geek | 01/17/06
Geeze, you would think ...  Too Old For IT | 01/18/06
Re: Geeze, you would think ...  none none | 01/18/06
You are such a poser  nomorems | 01/18/06
Looks like a great license, and the final version will be even better.  DonnieBoy | 01/17/06
GPL Terms  dhopp@... | 01/18/06
Simply not true!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
Notice your own wording?  techboy_z | 01/18/06
Copyright protects absolutley nothing.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
Your knowledge of IP law is patthetic!  B.O.F.H. | 01/18/06
Your example proves nothing  FamilyManFirst | 01/18/06
There IS some truth there...  el1jones | 01/18/06
If your argument is that patent review needs overhauled, I agree.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
The idea of a patent  CobraA1 | 01/18/06
Is to protect your ideas.  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Re: Is to protect your ideas.  none none | 01/18/06
re:  CobraA1 | 01/18/06
Bull!  NetArch. | 01/18/06
The uncreative will be weeded out.  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Actually it is true  Linux User 147560 | 01/18/06
More like Karl Marx  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Study your history  Linux User 147560 | 01/18/06
Take a reading lesson.  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Squirrels?  Linux User 147560 | 01/18/06
Yep Squirrels  osreinstall | 01/18/06
So in a nutshell  Linux Guy 1000 | 01/18/06
1000, you are full of BS  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Copying is Stealing  Too Old For IT | 01/18/06
Yes, copying without attribution is stealing.  NetArch. | 01/18/06
That's why  nomorems | 01/18/06
I think mebbe you are lookin at the wrong bunch  plumnilly | 01/18/06
The problem is  Michael Kelly | 01/18/06
What are you talking about?  osreinstall | 01/18/06
I didn't say easy  Michael Kelly | 01/18/06
Patent length & pending application for  IAFarm2 | 01/18/06
Easy, Obvious or Simple. It doesn't matter.  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Obviousness DOES Matter  dsdjr | 01/19/06
Here is the link to the article.  osreinstall | 01/19/06
How So?  nucrash | 01/18/06
Good idea, wrong target  A.Sinic | 01/18/06
SPOT ON!!!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
Re: Good idea, wrong target  none none | 01/18/06
Right target: software patents in general  FamilyManFirst | 01/18/06
Stallman's personal gripe against DRM will end GPLed products  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
I prefer Linus's Stance on DRM  nucrash | 01/18/06
Linus may stay with current GPL  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
Not necessarily...  techboy_z | 01/18/06
STOP thinking DRM is about music and video.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
No it's about  Linux User 147560 | 01/18/06
I never thought I "owned" another's property.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
Your right it is more than piracy  Linux User 147560 | 01/18/06
Let me try once more, I do NOT care about a silly song or movie!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
Get a clue  Linux User 147560 | 01/18/06
No_Axe  nomorems | 01/18/06
LU, No_Ax has a valid point about non-media DRM.  Anton Philidor | 01/18/06
What more  nomorems | 01/18/06
If you believe that your more fool than I thought.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
Who exactly does it benefit?  CobraA1 | 01/18/06
Maybe in your world, not in mine.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
re: Maybe in your world, not in mine.  CobraA1 | 01/18/06
You never owned anything at the company you work for.  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Actually . . .  CobraA1 | 01/18/06
It is all 1s and 0s without a working program.  osreinstall | 01/18/06
DRM will not benefit the consumer.  Linux User 147560 | 01/18/06
Wrong LU#  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Go back and reinstall your OS again...  Linux Guy 1000 | 01/18/06
1000 those blinders work on you a lot better.  osreinstall | 01/18/06
Let them have their DRM, just take their copyright  rhavyn | 01/18/06
By law they will be required to release it to public domain.  osreinstall | 01/19/06
DRM is not about Your medical or financial data, or a companies documents  jimbo_z | 01/18/06
I can see you too are clueless about how DRM works.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
By users, software distributors or by FOSS programmers?  John Le'Brecage | 01/18/06
DRM is a non-starter  code_flogger | 01/18/06
Grow how?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06
All patents must die [nt]  Omch'Ar | 01/18/06
Why? So my ideas can be stolen by  John Zern | 01/18/06
You mean like Microsoft?  nomorems | 01/18/06
Who said it was ok for MS to do this?  John Zern | 01/19/06
I can see why  CobraA1 | 01/18/06
You are right, and it's why it will fail.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/18/06
We'll see  CobraA1 | 01/18/06
Umm hmmm.  nomorems | 01/18/06
DRM and Linux / GNU licence 3, FUD FUD FUD  hipparchus2001 | 01/18/06
Keep believing you can change it...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/19/06

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