From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20026 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2003 11:27:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 1362 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 11:27:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:27:18 +0200 From: Sven Vermeulen To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030828112718.GA8071@gentoo.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1062016412.3111.3.camel@biproc> <200308280244.15864.stuart@gentoo.org> <200308280410.29055.luke-jr@gentoo.org> <200308281129.04996.stuart@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200308281129.04996.stuart@gentoo.org> X-Operating-System: Linux 2.4.20 X-Telephone: +32 486 460306 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] European Patentability rules X-Archives-Salt: cc4991f8-2f0f-402f-b9b3-bf7395c463e1 X-Archives-Hash: 54d2a8ebb965f9b2c2ce67a5d905a716 --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 11:29:01AM +0100, Stuart Herbert wrote: Content-Description: signed data > Well, that *is* how other fields of human endeavour have to work. They j= ust=20 > seem to have found a more balanced way to dealing with it. No, other fields work on implementations, not ideas or concepts. You patent= a certain _implementation_ of a combustion engine, not the *idea* or *concept* of a combustion engine. The first is what I totally agree on, implementations can be protected. The latter I totally disagree on, concepts/ideas have no need for protection. =20 > But to simply say that there shouldn't be any form of protection for IPR = isn't=20 > a position I'm willing to agree with. For software, copyright and licensing are two strong IP protection measures that are both firm and without high costs. And you can even choose to close your software (no open source) if you want to make sure that no-one illegal= ly steals/uses it. Wkr, Sven Vermeulen --=20 ^__^ And Larry saw that it was Perfect. (oo) Sven Vermeulen (__) http://www.gentoo.org Gentoo Documentation Project --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TecWXfqz7M26L9sRAhWUAJ9peZVuiM6FZlbVuP3n2Gbdg3ybJACfTRN1 bvcoTL+5qVi0LIUd05rM0/0= =QUY8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --8t9RHnE3ZwKMSgU+--