Some interesting thoughts on software patents... http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/patents.html
Thanks, Sam -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 4:30 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones On 12 Dec 2006 12:40:27 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeffrey D. Smith) wrote: >I patented a data compression process, and I saw how the sausage was >made at the patent office. For many reasons, I think patenting software >is a very bad idea. I think copyright protections are stronger and >easier to enforce. Software patents are mostly for Public Relations and marketing. Do you think it is a bad idea for companies to patent their software? As opposed to, say, trade secrets? Arguments for this are of interest to software developers. ==================== This email/fax message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution of this email/fax is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please destroy all paper and electronic copies of the original message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
