On Friday 14 December 2001 20:30, Tim Churches wrote: > Indeed. Patents like US patent 6,148,342 (go to > http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm and search for 6,148,342 > entered with the commas).
Not a problem here. Copyright exists in an instantiation of an idea in tangible form, but we think a software patent is as silly as patenting the idea of two lovers with families at odds with each other, each noble in their way, getting together anyway and dying in a fit of goss and sequentially mutual over-reaction would be. Lets have the next meeting at Stratford, I need another shot of Will. Meanwhile, we'll run the servers in GB and Oz, and being open and libre you all can use them. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.swis.net/midgley/
