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Digital Paint Community => Other Stuff => Topic started by: jitspoe on April 20, 2006, 02:35:12 PM

Title: Why Software Patents Suck
Post by: jitspoe on April 20, 2006, 02:35:12 PM

http://righttocreate.blogspot.com/2006/04/write-free-software-pay-203000-to.html

Title: Re: Why Software Patents Suck
Post by: S8NSSON on April 20, 2006, 02:50:47 PM

Well JMRI had decoderpro.com now so maybe it all turned out for the good.

Outrageous

Title: Re: Why Software Patents Suck
Post by: Eiii on April 20, 2006, 07:09:05 PM

This is more a case of a big buisness being an excretory opening than patents being a problem. Unless the product is confusingly similar (in pretty much every way someone looking at which one to use would), or use really similar code, there should be no problem.