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____/ bbgruff on Saturday 20 September 2008 15:44 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> ____/ Homer on Saturday 20 September 2008 03:27 : \____
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>>> Verily I say unto thee, that nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx spake thusly:
>>>
>>>> <Quote>
>>> ...
>>>> ...I suspect what sparked the panic is that the Seinfeld ads were too
>>>> good, too accurate at capturing just what it is that Microsoft, as a
>>>> company and brand, stands for: nothing.
>>>> </Quote>
>>>>
>>>> http://daringfireball.net/2008/09/theres_nothing_there
>>>
>>> He stole my observation.
>>>
>>> I demand my Intellectual Monopoly rights, Goddamit.
>>
>> Did you know about poetic patents? You can sue if someone 'steals' your
>> analogy.
>
> - but wouldn't that be making a mountain out of a molehill and causing a
> storm in a teacup???
Watch out. It'll come to haunt you.
"Andy, your arguments for software patents work just as well for prose patents.
A book is complex, too. Should Steve Oualline be able to patent the analogy
that he uses to explain pointers in Practical C Programming? The key is to
balance the inventives for R&D that the patent system offers against the
transaction costs of maintaining the system, and the balance clearly doesn't
work for software (or prose, or guitar chords, or rhyming words). (PS: please
allow "cite" tags in comments.)"
http://radar.oreilly.com/2007/09/three-vantage-points-from-whic.html
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