Can you guys(and girls) see my signature? Just want to know :rolleyes:
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Can you guys(and girls) see my signature? Just want to know :rolleyes:
Yes I can :unsure:
pretty.Quote:
Originally posted by Ariel_001@7 May 2004 - 19:36
Can you guys(and girls) see my signature? Just want to know :rolleyes:
Just noticed He asked a different question in the thread....¨
"Is Your Ad-blocking Blocking My Signature?, Is it?"
"No"
BOT
Your sig shows up fine.Quote:
Originally posted by Ariel_001@7 May 2004 - 12:36
Can you guys(and girls) see my signature? Just want to know :rolleyes:
/me thinks shitey advertising stunt...
Your sig has been ad blocked by by me as of present
;)
your trousers are blocking our paths to your ass :o
Not at first but now I think about it yes it is B)Quote:
Originally posted by Mad Cat@7 May 2004 - 18:55
/me thinks shitey advertising stunt...
Not at first but now I think about it yes it is B) [/b][/quote]Quote:
Originally posted by Ariel_001+7 May 2004 - 19:13--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Ariel_001 @ 7 May 2004 - 19:13)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-Mad Cat@7 May 2004 - 18:55
/me thinks shitey advertising stunt...
ok then. whats software patenting all about then?
ok then. whats software patenting all about then? [/b][/quote]Quote:
Originally posted by BigBoo+7 May 2004 - 19:16--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (BigBoo @ 7 May 2004 - 19:16)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Quote:
Originally posted by Ariel_001@7 May 2004 - 19:13
<!--QuoteBegin-Mad Cat
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@7 May 2004 - 18:55
/me thinks shitey advertising stunt...
Not at first but now I think about it yes it is B)
Ouoted from http://swpat.ffii.org/#intro
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If Haydn had patented "a symphony, characterised by that sound is produced [ in extended sonata form ]", Mozart would have been in trouble.
Unlike copyright, patents can block independent creations. Software patents can render software copyright useless. One copyrighted work can be covered by hundreds of patents of which the author doesn't even know but for whose infringement he and his users can be sued. Some of these patents may be impossible to work around, because they are broad or because they are part of communication standards.
Evidence from economic studies shows that software patents have lead to a decrease in R&D spending.
Advances in software are advances in abstraction. While traditional patents were for concrete and physical inventions, software patents cover ideas. Instead of patenting a specific mousetrap, you patent any "means of trapping mammals" or "means of trapping data in an emulated environment". The fact that the universal logic device called "computer" is used for this does not constitute a limitation. When software is patentable, anything is patentable.
In most countries, software has, like mathematics and other abstract subject matter, been explicitely considered to be outside the scope of patentable inventions. However these rules were broken one or another way. The patent system has gone out of control. A closed community of patent lawyers is creating, breaking and rewriting its own rules without much supervision from the outside.