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Merchant of Malice - Philosophy | 297 comments | Create New Account
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Merchant of Malice - Philosophy
Authored by: PJ on Sunday, January 20 2013 @ 01:26 PM EST
That's exactly why you don't want to use the BSD
license, despite how much corporate entities like
Microsoft love it, unless you want corporate
entities to take your code, add a bit, and thne
close it all off in proprietary restrictions.

And now you know why the FOSS community usually
prefers the GPL. It protected Linux from the
rapacity of SCO Group and its backer Microsoft.

[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]

How about just abstract vs physical?
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, January 21 2013 @ 12:42 PM EST

Software never exists in physical form - therefore it's an abstract concept.

By allowing patents on software, the Law is allowing patents on abstract concepts which the Supreme's say is not patentable subject matter!

A mess in the Law of the Law created by the Legal practitioners.

RAS

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