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Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: Getting rid of software patents = All software becomes free?
Date: Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:27:02 -0500
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In article 
<d7e419d2-cba7-4384-a909-bc90671e92a1@d27g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
 mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote:

> So if there were no software patents, there'd be no more to sue over,

Software companies were protecting their wares with copyright long 
before the PTO started allowing software patents.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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