On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 02:35:12PM +0200, Peter wrote: > > Of course someone had to do this eventually. This is totally > unbelievable. I think that examples like this should be popularized as > much as possible in the interest of the popularization of the evil that > the patenting and copyrighting system for business practices represents: > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1815971,00.asp > > Soon to come: The exact position and sequence of operations in which a > male or female employee uses a urinal in breaks while at work will be > copyrighted as a 'business practice' as it will be demonstrated that > using this position saves 10 minutes of work time per year and employee. > After that we will talk baby sleeping positions in a cot and city bus > standing patterns.
Quite off-topic to this list. I'll just note that copyright is not really a good way to "protect" those positions: if someone else can demostrate that he developed a number of those positions independently, copyright will no longer hold. This is clearly a place that a patent is more suitable, if at all. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend t ================================================================= 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]
