Hi.
I saw this:
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/smartsection/makepdf.php?itemid=79
Note:
"It's not as if the various manufacturing companies don't have very
good reasons for keeping the code
and specifications closed. They all infringe on each other's patents,
however none of this can be
pr
On Dec 8, 7:11 pm, mike3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I saw this:
>
> http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/smartsection/makepdf.php?itemid=79
>
> Note:
>
> "It's not as if the various manufacturing companies don't have very
> good reasons for keeping the code
> and specifications closed. The
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
mike3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So if there were no software patents, there'd be no more to sue over,
Software companies were protecting their wares with copyright long
before the PTO started allowing software patents.
--
Barry Margolin, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:11:34 -0800, mike3 wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I saw this:
>
> http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/smartsection/makepdf.php?itemid=79
>
> Note:
>
> "It's not as if the various manufacturing companies don't have very
> good reasons for keeping the code
> and specifications closed. T
Andy Baxter wrote:
On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:11:34 -0800, mike3 wrote:
Hi.
I saw this:
http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/smartsection/makepdf.php?itemid=79
Note:
"It's not as if the various manufacturing companies don't have very
good reasons for keeping the code
and specifications closed. T
On 2007-12-11, Andy Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you replace 'companies' with 'large companies' (who have the resources
> to lobby government, and the money to pay lawyers to enforce their
> patents), it makes more sense. Individually some of them might want to get
> out of it, but over t
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:07:58 +, Tim Smith wrote:
> On 2007-12-11, Andy Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you replace 'companies' with 'large companies' (who have the resources
>> to lobby government, and the money to pay lawyers to enforce their
>> patents), it makes more sense. Individu
On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 03:07:58 +, Tim Smith wrote:
> On 2007-12-11, Andy Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> If you replace 'companies' with 'large companies' (who have the resources
>> to lobby government, and the money to pay lawyers to enforce their
>> patents), it makes more sense. Individu
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andy Baxter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And someone suggested
> elsewhere on this list that big companies rarely sue each other because
> they infringe patents all the time so avoid having a knockdown drag out
> fight for no good reason?
Or they establish blanket
