Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-26 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Lee Hollaar wrote: [...] methods implemented in computer software. Forward Inline Original Message Path: uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Alexander Terekhov [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: The many ways confusion Date: Fri, 25 May

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
http://blog.actonline.org/2007/05/microsoft_paten.html -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it? My morning news review had me chuckling this morning. Following Matt Asay's post on the InfoWorld Open Sources blog, I watched Eben Moglen's passionate attack on the

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread rjack
Alexander Terekhov wrote: http://blog.actonline.org/2007/05/microsoft_paten.html -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it? My morning news review had me chuckling this morning. Following Matt Asay's post on the InfoWorld Open Sources blog, I watched Eben Moglen's

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Lee Hollaar wrote: [...] If there is a single way (or maybe a very, very limited way) of expressing an idea, it is said that the idea and the expression have merged and therefore the expression is not protectable by copyright. That has nothing to do with whether there is a patent that

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread Alexander Terekhov
Lee Hollaar wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is utterly laughable is the fact that a purported copyright license like the GPL3 *cannot* effect matters concerning patents. If source code implements a patentable idea then the source code in

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread Lee Hollaar
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is utterly laughable is the fact that a purported copyright license like the GPL3 *cannot* effect matters concerning patents. If source code implements a patentable idea then the source code in quenstion cannot be

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread Lee Hollaar
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lee Hollaar wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is utterly laughable is the fact that a purported copyright license like the GPL3 *cannot* effect matters concerning patents. If source code

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread Lee Hollaar
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lee Hollaar wrote: [...] If there is a single way (or maybe a very, very limited way) of expressing an idea, it is said that the idea and the expression have merged and therefore the expression is not protectable by copyright. That has

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread Lee Hollaar
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lee Hollaar wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lee Hollaar wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is utterly laughable is the fact that a purported copyright license

Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- Microsoft Patents FUD Report: Who is Actually Slinging it?

2007-05-25 Thread rjack
Lee Hollaar wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lee Hollaar wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is utterly laughable is the fact that a purported copyright license like the GPL3 *cannot* effect matters concerning patents. If