Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 02, 2003 02:41 AM
Sofware patents are messy. I was not defending them. I was just trying to say that OSS is safer both from copyright and patent point of view as of today. Should software patents be abolished? Yes, but that will require also other changes in the IP laws. It is an entirely different topic... I simply pointed to the common mistake to consider closed source "easier in court". In fact it's much harder.
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Re:However, software patents are...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 02, 2003 02:41 AMI simply pointed to the common mistake to consider closed source "easier in court". In fact it's much harder.
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