Re: Santa Brings Microsoft Patents for Editing, Compiling Code

"David Kastrup" <dak@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Buford <buford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > The sheer brazenness of such corruption is shocking, but I guess the
> > corruption really got started when they decided to grant patents for
> > ideas in the first place.  It used to be a truism that you couldn't
> > patent ideas, and for all the right reasons.  What the hell has
> > happened

As it costs a lot to vet the damm things properley they just don't vet them
any more!

> The same thing that happened when copyright, the law balancing the
> interests of creators and the public, was extended to 90 years after
> the _death_ of the creator, or the expiration date of "Steamhouse
> Willy", whichever is to come last.
>
> Money.
>
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> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum