Re: Santa Brings Microsoft Patents for Editing, Compiling Code

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?

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