On Jul 16, 11:30 am, "Phil Da Lick!"
<phil_the_lickREMOVETHISSPAMT...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Moshe Goldfarb. wrote:
> > ....give his work away for free?
>
> > Oh, it's great to sit in a college campus posting SPAM 24x7 demanding that
> > corporations give up patent rights, give away their hard work for free,
> > open source their software etc....
>
> Try not to be such a dumbfuck flattie. Being against software patents
> does not mean that you expect anybody to give anything away for free.
> Copyright protection is more than sufficient for software packages.
> Patent protection is only required as barriers to competition.
The bigger problem is that so many software patents have been
fraudulently obtained by unethical lawyers and ignorant (ill informed)
"developers" who think that they have invented something because it
hasn't been patented before - even though it may have been released as
OSS or Public Domain source 30 years earlier.
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