Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | 20 Dec 1998 10:06:05 GMT |
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Followup to: <367C8EF3.AC241233@psychosis.com> By author: Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Who is to say what is and is not patentable? (Do you cede that government has a > stake in all ideas???) If you want to keep TOTAL rights to something, DON'T > make it public at all. >
The biggest problem is that in the U.S., the Government has allowed patenting of things that are blatantly *NOT* patentable, due to the "obviousness" restriction, which has basically been ignored here.
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