[wellylug] Patents

Martin Baehr mbaehr at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at
Tue Apr 12 02:07:30 NZST 2005


On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 05:45:33PM +1200, Richard Hector wrote:
> > to late. all the needed ideas ARE ALREADY PATENTED.
> All the ideas we _know_ we need, perhaps ...

yes, there may be more ideas out there, but, with "all the needed ideas"
i am not reffering to them as being enough, but as being impossible to
avoid.

it is not possible to write code without violating some patent.

for your reading pleasure:
http://webshop.ffii.org/
http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/index.en.html
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/

greetings, martin.
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