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____/ Phil Da Lick! on Thursday 25 September 2008 09:43 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> | Oracle Corporation opposes the patentability of software. The Company
>> | believes that existing copyright law and available trade secret
>> | protections, as opposed to patent law, are better suited to protecting
>> | computer software developments.
>> |
>> | […]
>> |
>> | Compared to adequate copyright and trade secret protections, patent
>> | protection is excessively broad and enormously expensive.
>> |
>> | CHANGING THE PATENT SYSTEM
>> |
>> | Oracle has recommended that patent protection not be provided for
>> | computer software or computer software algorithms, for the reasons
>> | described above.
>> `----
>
> Oracle have just gone up in my estimation.
They are already in OIN, so it's unlikely that they'll ever use patents against
something like MySQL. Microsoft, on the other hand, they can attack with their
patents shall Microsoft not attack by proxy (Intellectual Vultures or
Acacia-soft).
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