On Sunday 12 November 2006 05:13, Doug McGarrett wrote: > You should be happy that software is patented, rather than copyrighted. > Patents expire within a long but reasonable(?) time; copyrights don't > expire for almost 200 years. No-one living will ever see a copyright > expire, even if it was granted to Mickey Mouse movies of the 1920's.
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