Hi Samuel! 09 Jan 2003, "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
SH> How can one copyright a cartridge? Don't ask me ... ask lexmark SH> Unless the container and its components have some unique features and SH> characteristics and component materials which make it quite unlike SH> anything else, then how can it be copyrighted or patented? I'm neither US law expert, nor printer cartdidge expert. But the cartridges contain special chips, whith the sole purpose of making refilling impossible ... maybe these chips are copyrighted ?? just a guess. Or maybe just another case where the DMCA is used to bully people and scare them away ?? SH> It would seem to me that it would be lawful for any manufacturer to SH> copy the ink cartridges designed by their competitors. It seems to me that nobody would be sooooo stupid to finance his own big brother with his own tax money ... guess what is happening in the US right now ?? Bush invented the Department of homeland security (also known as "Big Brother") 170000 people working there, budget of over 35 billion $/year !!!!!! And nobody cares !!! In a normal country millions of people would be on the streets, demanding W to be sent to guantanamo ... (or to any place where he can be kept secure, and where hes boundless dumbness cannot harm the country ....) nothing is happening ... everybody is happy ... and now to the most sick part of all ... Bush is seen as a good president. over 75% of americans think that he does a good job ... Boy ... I can't say how happy I am that I had the luck of not being born in the US ! What has W to do that americans wake up ?? implant chips in every american, and send the brain waves directly to M$ ? <sing> and the laaaand of the freeeee </sing> Back to big brother First move from M$ was to designate Thomas Richey as M$ director for homeland security ... who waits now that W buys software for huge amounts of $$ from M$ And another highly sick part is the `Cyber Security Enhancement Act' (CSEA) a law that IMO clearly violates international Law, and UN law. SH> Sam Heywood CU, Ricsi PS: http://heise.de/ct/03/02/070/ -- |~)o _ _o Richard Menedetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> {ICQ: 7659421} (PGP) |~\|(__\| -=> The only thing shorter than a weekend is a vacation <=-
