Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 18:24:40 -0500 From: "G. Adam Stanislav" <redprince@redprince.net> To: W Gerald Hicks <jhix@mindspring.com>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why are people against GNU? WAS Re: 5.0 already? Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20000513182440.00892db0@mail85.pair.com> In-Reply-To: <391DE35C.BA359426@mindspring.com> References: <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10005130735370.20100-100000@hydrant.intranova.net> <391D4DAD.FD80980A@picusnet.com> <003b01bfbcdc$6059fb40$a164aad0@kickme> <391D71FE.1570F551@asme.org> <20000513205610.A22103@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <3.0.6.32.20000513143506.00895650@mail85.pair.com> <20000514010614.A16058@happy.checkpoint.com> <391DDB3E.8DFFD8D0@mindspring.com> <20000514041848.K22405@physics.iisc.ernet.in>
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At 16:21 13-05-2000 -0700, W Gerald Hicks wrote: >Indeed, the US Patent Office has been doing more damage to the concept >of valid IP protection than perhaps any other force. Mostly because the patent is rarely granted to the creator of the idea. The current GIF fiasco is a good example. It is not Lempel and Ziw who hold patent to Lempel-Ziw. It is Unisys. The fact that it was developed by their employee should not make them owners of the idea. They did not teach their employee how to think: They hired him because he already knew how to think. They may own whatever specific products he was paid to create for them, but they should have no claim on the algorithms he used. Those should have remained his. Adam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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