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Story: Software patent war ignites again
Posted by: Peter Mitchell (Friday 22 September 2006, 2:30 PM)
"If it's WRITTEN,like software, then it should be protected by COPYRIGHT"
I totaly agree.
Only ideas should be patented. Software is mearly a list of instructions much as the plan we get with MFI furnature to aid construction.
Should these plans now be patented? I have an instruction manual for the motherboard on this computer, these words used to construct it are copyrighted. Would the writer be able to patent this book? No, of course not, because he has not produced an original idea!
If software is classed as patentable then I suggest the authors of written words, who are still alive should demant thgat their books be patented. That should keep the patent offices buisy.
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Do they patent their bugs as well? Steve B -
If it's WRITTEN,like software, then it should be p... Rick Stockton
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"If it's WRITTEN,like software, then it should be... Peter Mitchell
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