David Steuber on Sun, 29 Oct 2000 09:00:02 -0500 (EST)


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Software Patents


mjd-perl-pm@plover.com writes:

' I am boycotting Amazon. See http://www.plover.com/~mjd/amazon.html for details.

This is one of my buttons here.  Patenting software is like patenting
long division.  There is an MP3 file that I have which is a debate on
the issue between Dickinson, director of the US Patent Office, and Tim
O'Reilly who has a small book publishing business ;-).

I don't remember where I got it from or who owns the copyright on it.
But I figure if you haven't heard it before, it is worth listening
to.  It's rather shocking.  If anyone knows the original attribute to
this file, please let me know (so that I can link to the original):

http://www.david-steuber.com/audio/mp3/patentdebate.mp3

The file is 6536946 bytes.

You won't find any links to it on my site because it is probably
copyrighted material that I don't have a license for.

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