On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:02:00 Graeme Gill wrote: > You can't patent ideas (and concepts are ideas). Patents cover > particular implementations of ideas.
I fully agree with that if you're in a part of the world with "sane" patent practices. But in the US that's a whole different thing. MS was just awarded a patent on the concept of "sudo", which is in use in the UN*X world since the 70s or so already. Unhappy 'bout the US trying to force their patent law on the rest of the world, Guy -- Guy K. Kloss Institute of Information and Mathematical Sciences Te Kura Pūtaiao o Mōhiohio me Pāngarau Massey University, Albany (North Shore City, Auckland) 473 State Highway 17, Gate 1, Mailroom, Quad B Building voice: +64 9 414-0800 ext. 9585 fax: +64 9 441-8181 [email protected] http://www.massey.ac.nz/~gkloss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Lcms-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lcms-user
