Re: [issues] Patents (was: RMS boycott of Amazon)

[franzoni]

On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, TeknoDragon wrote:

> > copyright to patents (as is in the US). Well, patents are not a good
> > thing, you can tell from the amazon story (and the unisys/gif one, you
> 
> not a good thing?
> 
> tell me, if you were a struggling college student who is developing an
> original data structure that has a chance to be in demand what can you do
> to proffit from your idea other than to patent it?

i would be really pissed off, because I should check if there are patents
on each single piece of my software.

Eugenia


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