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Re: Softwarepatente und Linux
- To: Johannes Ulbricht <Johannes_Ulbricht@csi.com>
- Subject: Re: Softwarepatente und Linux
- From: Heiko Recktenwald <uzs106@ibm.rhrz.uni-bonn.de>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 14:07:19 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: "'debate@fitug.de'" <debate@fitug.de>
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- In-Reply-To: <01BEEE0E.0B06CB20.Johannes_Ulbricht@csi.com>
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On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Johannes Ulbricht wrote:
> It was never the object of patent laws to grant a monopoly for every
> trifling device,
> every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and
> spontaneously occur
> to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of
> manufactures. Such
> an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges tends rather to
> obstruct than to
> stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make
Dann kann man doch ganz beruhigt sein.