Companies and Patents

[Simo Sorce]

On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 17:24, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote:
> 
> At Cisco, it's like that too. You have also an online patent registration 
> for the employee. (and you also get your name on the patent wall)
> 
> Of course, the copyright holder is Cisco and only Cisco. 

what have to do copyright with patents???
you meant the patent holder perhaps?

> I hope we can see in future a wall with all the employee doing Free 
> Software under a "copyleft" style license. 

You can do that now!
It may be a nice idea to have a web site with such wall.

> Software Patent is really a pain. 

Yes, we must fight hard to not let them pass through in nations where
they do not yet exist, let USA stiffle it's own competion, and do not
dictate also our market.

Simo.

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