[CS-FSLUG] NI: Microsoft Owns iPod

[Don Parris]

On 8/19/05, Nathan T. <celerate at gmail.com> wrote:
> In the ideal world no one would get patents, they can be so simple
> it's rediculous. In a few more years a "survival through inhalation of
> air" patent may happen considering how rediculous patents can get.
> 
> _______________________________________________

I don't oppose patents, generally.  However, software is truly much
more akin to writing than to manufacturing.  We can both write stories
that are quite similar - same plot, same themes, same challenges and
so on.  However, the way you tell your story - different characters,
scenes, and times, etc., can be vastly different from mine.  Thus,
software patents prevent us from being able to implement the same
concepts in different ways.

Don
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