Software patents: They're back!

[Georg C. F. Greve]

 || On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 16:01:18 +0100
 || Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen at vrijschrift.org> wrote: 

 jd> But the results of that is also covered by copyright.

Exactly -- that is one fundamental confusion here.

Another is that copyright and patents overlap: Unless SAP plans to
have a "great idea", patent it, and then _not_ put it in software for
sale, there will always be overlap.

Regards,
Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve                                 <greve at fsfeurope.org>
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