The point seems to be that ideas are not copyrightable, for a good reason. Otherwise, copying anything from anyone would be illegal, such as copying to mechanical form such inventions as the turtoise's shell and the bird's wings. This is, after all, only reimplementations of existing ideas.
Yes, if you wrote a program that is technically not difficult to code, but the idea behind it is revolutionary, you are not automatically protected from someone else reimplementing your idea, under whatever terms THEY see fit. If you don't like that, get a patent. The idea is that in order to get such a protection, you have to convince an impartial body that you have really really made a significant improvment on existing ideas. If your idea is not patentable, then you don't deserve to have the idea protected. Make sure you program is really really really good before releasing it, and other people trying to reimplement will have a very high barrier of entrance. That is the theory. In practice, patent law implementation is flawed, and it does not make sense to me to give the same period of protection to inventions belonging to markets with such diverse time to market and time for return on investment periods. That, however, is outside the scope of this discussion. Ely Levy wrote: >if you had any point in this e-mail i failed to see it. sorry. >please explain it again in a simple langauge. > >Ely Levy >System group >Hebrew University >Jerusalem Israel > > > >On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tzahi Fadida wrote: > > > >>So, what you are saying is that the guys who invented the tank, planes, tree >climbing, should all be incarcerated, possibly even burned on the stake, since they >used the idea of god, that taken him billions >>of years to complete. Hmm..., myabe its because the statue of limmitation on those >things. I mean, >>copyright laws > god laws, no? >>anyone feeling otherwise would be reported to RIAA/BSA/Inquisition/etc... >>Also, by the nature of these rules, since God is an imortal(=infinity) then it is >forbidden touse any ideas until 70 god years have passed. and since >(infinity/70)=infinity, we should all be in prison. >>I guess those guys who claimed that climbing down the trees was a bad move, and >maybe those >>who claimed getting out of the sea was even worse, were right. >> >>Another tought, what happens if i GPLed god? would i be able to eat pork and get a >blessing from ovadia >>yosef at the same time? >> >>* - * - * >>Tzahi Fadida >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Technion Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>My Cool Site: HTTP://WWW.My2Nis.Com >>* - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * - * >> >>WARNING TO SPAMMERS:see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html >> >> >> >>>-----Original Message----- >>>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ely Levy >>>Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 10:51 AM >>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>Subject: Re: where has free software gone? (was Re: knesset >>>meeting on open source) >>> >>> >>>so you think going to a program which someone spend hourson >>>planing and designing, >>>or as people suggested before months of living off saving and >>>working full >>>time on it. >>>and then someone comes after all this efford and say cool design/idea >>>lets copy it and make it GPL, and ofcourse it takeshim a lot >>>less time >>>cause the planing and desiging is already done. >>> >>>that is prefectly ok thing to do? >>> >>>Ely Levy >>> >>> >>>On 15 Jul 2002, Moshe Zadka wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>no I don't have anything against GPL only against idea leechers. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Like Linus leeched Linux from the UNIX design? >>>>Like Stallman leeched gcc from AT&T labs? >>>>Like Larry Wall leeched Perl from the UNIX utilities? >>>>Like GIMP leeched from Photoshop? >>>>Like Miguel leeched midnight commander from norton commander? >>>> >>>>Yeah, those idea leechers should be killed! >>>>Hell, killing's too good them, they should be tortured, and >>>> >>>> >>>*than* killed. >>> >>> >>>>If youuse someoneelse's idea, why, it's as though you came >>>> >>>> >>>to his house, >>> >>> >>>>raped his mother and sister, killed his father, set fire to >>>> >>>> >>>it, and then >>> >>> >>>>danced around the fire! Only worse! >>>> >>>>We should all just use our own ideas, and never read or see >>>> >>>> >>>what someone >>> >>> >>>>else did, and if we do (*by mistake*) learn of someone >>>> >>>> >>>else's idea we should >>> >>> >>>>forget it immediately. If we can't forget, we must approach >>>> >>>> >>>that person and >>> >>> >>>>offer him large sums of money to sell us a license to keep >>>> >>>> >>>the idea in our >>> >>> >>>>heads. >>>> >>>>================================================================= >>>>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >>>>the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >>>>echounsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>================================================================= >>>To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >>>the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >>>echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>================================To unsubscribe, send mail to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] with >>the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >>echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> >> > > >================================================================= >To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command >echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
