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Story: Irish developers protest against patents
Posted by: Daxx (Friday 18 March 2005, 10:05 AM)
Back in 1991, Bill said, in an internal memo: 'If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today...A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose.'
this was before software patents were allowe, in 1994....
If there had been softwarepatents in 1978, there had not been Microsoft
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Story: Irish developers protest against patents
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I wish I had a crystal ball or could tell the futu... abbot -
Conflict of interest or not. There have been enoug... Arthur B.
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Irish and others, very simple solution.
DEVELOP YO... Anonymous
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Back in 1991, Bill said, in an internal memo:... Daxx -
that makes very little sense Anonymous
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What does not make sense, Mr ceo (previo... Anonymous
