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On Wednesday 27 August 2003 23:35, Matt Chorman wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 02:13 pm, Markus Nigbur wrote: |
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> > On 27 Aug 2003 22:33:32 +0200 |
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> > Aug 27 21:34:17 * klieber happens to support software patents. |
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> > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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> It's amazing to me that any open-source developer would agree with software |
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> patents. Just on a random search of the US patent office, I found that I |
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> (and probably each and every one of you) are guilty of patent infringment - |
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> daily. Have you ever used a computer to initiate a remote session - ssh? |
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> vnc? X? Look up patent 6,611,865. Be thankful HP hasn't started suing |
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> everyone under the sun. |
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I personally are not completeley opposed to software pattents either. But I |
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think currently there are a) too many trivial patents, and b) I believe that |
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general business methods should not be allowed to be pattented (like those |
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stupid amazon one-click patents) and c) that for software the protection time |
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of 20 years is too long when compared to the lifetime of products using those |
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patents. I think a period of say 5 years is more reasonable. |
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Last I believe that the patent granting process should be changed to make it |
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easier for people to object against granting a patent in the first place. The |
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patent office makes money on granting patents, so there should be a way that |
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independent parties can go and tell the office that a patent is trivial or |
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state of the art (easilly replicatable by a third party based on current |
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public research) or even prior art (allready done by someone else before the |
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patent application date). |
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But before the patenting process and patent lifetime is aranged properly I |
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believe we should not allow software patents, therefor I believe the |
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anti-patent protest should be supported. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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