Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>| What innovations are we stifling right now with patents that lock out the
>| scientists, amateur and professional, from research ? What new software can't
>| be created due to these restrictions. We may never know what we didn't
>| discover or create due to their chilling effects.
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>| It's like people claiming ownership on particular areas of the sky, and just
>| as absurd. ?You can't look at that star, it's mine, I patented looking there.
>| Here's a coin-operated telescope if you want to peek?. Good luck making
>| scientific progress in astronomy with these restrictions.
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One wonders if we might need to move to an alternative geography in
order to avoid the kind of hell so often envisaged in 1990s sci-fi
B-films - you know, the ones with the nasty corporate with all the
connections and power trampling over an "oppressed mass". Software
patents are a dreadful artefact of a bygone age, an age where most
people were not well educated, and a privilege few could hold all the
power.
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