Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 10, 2004 09:15 PM
You couldn't do squat, actually.
If you want to protect your programme, then you have copyrights. Patents, however, are a total other ballgame.
MS recently received a patent on 'double-clicking' a mouse. Well, then, do you think it to be fair that MS could forbid you to klick twice on your mouse? And what if they had a patent on using compilers? Or on typing code that interacts with an OS? Where would that leave you?
The difference between copyrights and patents are this: Jules Vernes could forbid anyone to copy one of his books, with patents, however, he could have forbidden anyone to create Sience-Fiction.
The idea that everything should be able to be patented is absurd, and, ultimately, contraproductive for the public at large.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 10, 2004 09:15 PMIf you want to protect your programme, then you have copyrights. Patents, however, are a total other ballgame.
MS recently received a patent on 'double-clicking' a mouse. Well, then, do you think it to be fair that MS could forbid you to klick twice on your mouse? And what if they had a patent on using compilers? Or on typing code that interacts with an OS? Where would that leave you?
The difference between copyrights and patents are this: Jules Vernes could forbid anyone to copy one of his books, with patents, however, he could have forbidden anyone to create Sience-Fiction.
The idea that everything should be able to be patented is absurd, and, ultimately, contraproductive for the public at large.
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