Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Robert Kiesling (kiesling@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 20 Dec 98 15:11 EST

> In message <m0zrja6-0000WZC@libsurf>, Robert Kiesling writes:
>
> >
> > > > IBM is a large company however and like several other large US companies
> > > > they patent anything that they think they can get away with.
> > >
> > > Well, I'm glad to know that no other countries have companies that
> > > do that... :/
> >
> > Which doesn't excuse U.S. companies, of course.
>
> Oh, I know. I'm more likely to criticize those in my own country
> than others. Software patents just shouldn't be, anywhere.
> Without the right people in the patent office, it is going to be
> hard to fix this.

Patents might have some restrictions that copyrights don't.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be use for them (from a legal perspective).

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Robert Kiesling
kiesling@ix.netcom.com




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