On Wednesday 10 March 2004 02:51 pm, Margot wrote: > > The original purpose of patenting and copy write was to protect > > "original and novel ideas" for the purpose of rewarding their creators. > > It has long since been clear to me that the purpose today is to create > > blocks to widespread use of that which is rightfully the property of us > > all. There are , for instance, firms out there patenting gnomes, > > Gnomes? Are we talking about the alternative to KDE, or the garden > variety?
I suspect he meant "genomes" although the garden variety probably has been patented by someone, somewhere. In good news, Eolas Technologies' patent on web components has been invalidated by the US Patent Trade Office. One down, 9,000,000 more bad patents to go. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer
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