Re: [pgsql-www] Software Patents

From: Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>
To: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] Software Patents
Date: 2005-04-22 17:35:47
Message-ID: 1114191347.17613.676.camel@camel
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On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 12:49, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >
> > *nod* Personally, I'm not 'anti-patent', I'm just against abuse of the
> > patent system ... and I think alot of the patents that have been going
> > out have shown to be sooooo vague as to be useless, but being approved
> > anyway :(
>
> Agreed. I am not anti-patent either. I am anti-software patent.
>

How do you differentiate one as bad but the other as good?

Robert Treat
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