Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Sep 19, 2004 at 10:59:36AM -0400, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> somewhat. In a patent case, the property right to the patent existed >> before the "original" software was ever written. For the person who >> wrote the software *after* the invention was patented to try to >> blackmail the inventor is horrible[1]. > > This is legal fiction, and sloppy legal fiction at that.
Does this mean you don't have a substantive repsonse? -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]