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Memory management and patents

Memory management and patents

Posted Aug 16, 2002 17:13 UTC (Fri) by cekim (guest, #3295)
In reply to: Memory management and patents by drooypcom
Parent article: Memory management and patents

Rather than an ongoing class struggle, we are more likely to enter an
IP cold war built on the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction:

"I won't sue you over your infringement of my red patent if you won't
sue me over my infringement of your blue patent."

Alas, the Green patent was GPL'd so no one gets to color TV...

I am all for IP in principle, but something has to give in the US as
our Patent Office appears to be either incompetent or intentionally
disruptive to innovation...

I am expecting a patent on "Human Oxygen Intake" any day now...


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Memory management and patents

Posted Aug 12, 2003 1:42 UTC (Tue) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link]

> I am all for IP in principle

So you are all for a propaganda device? Intellectual property doesn't exist... neither copyrights nor patents are property, but a state concession of an artificial monopoly.

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