Re: Utility window architecture question
Re: Utility window architecture question
- Subject: Re: Utility window architecture question
- From: Steven Rogers <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 15:36:11 -0500
On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 03:13 PM, Erik M. Buck wrote:
I advocate a blanket ban on all software patents.
Some software is reasonably patentable because it involves business,
manufacturing, and engineering process, which is (and should be)
patentable.
Software is a branch of mathematics and mathematics is not patentable.
Software is an application of mathematics, it is not a branch of
mathematics. Engineering principles are not patentable, but the devices
one creates *using* engineering principles are.
Software is already protected under copyright and trade secret law not
to mention end user licenses.
We need protection for *real* intellectual property. Just banning
patents altogether will not solve the problem.
SR
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