On Sat, 18 Mar 2000, Philip S Tellis wrote:
>Devdas Bhagat wrote:
>>
<snip>
>>
>> They don't copyright it, they patent the damn thing (where possible)! Copy
>> rights can be worked around, patents can't.
>
>Ok, sorry, correction accepted and appreciated. IANAL or a P&CR Expert.
>
>Philip
Nor am I, but my understanding is that copyright covers merely that particular
implementation (which allows for another implementation as a workaround:
compare wine and windows or GNUstep and Nextstep), while patents are much
broader and cover all implementations.
Devdas Bhagat
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