[CLUE-Talk] Patent Infringement

[bill ehlert]

**  patents.  my understanding is that
    they're a means of advancing the "state
    of the art" by requiring anybody who
    gets one to disclose in the patent
    app just exactly how he/she does
    what the patent does.

    seems to be that advancing the state of
    the art should advance open-source
    s/w just as much as any other s/w.
    perhaps more due the to the inherent
    advantages of the open-source 
    development model.

    so why are we making fun of it???




--- Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at americanisp.net>
wrote:
> On a recent archeological dig in Egypt they
> found a stone                                  
>                                
> tablet loaded with of hieroglyphics.  They
> translated it:                                 
>                            
> Notice of Patent Infringement Ruling           
>                            
> In the case of Thor vs. Ug, wherein Thor,
> holder of patent                               
>                                  
> 0000000001 for Method and Apparatus to Kill
> Large Beasts for                               
> Purposes of Eating, as implemented by Heavy
> Rock on End of                                 

    <snip>





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