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FYI... http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/01/26/PatentFunnies On 6/6/05, Michael Kay <mike@s...> wrote: > If other companies can come along and take from MS > > or Amazon an idea for a software product or feature on their online > > stores this directly effects the Seattle economy > > Microsoft built its business by doing things that other people had done > before, and in many cases doing it better. The same is true of Amazon. > > Our whole industry thrives on people taking existing ideas and improving > them. > > No one has a right to sit back and say "that's our territory for the next 25 > years, you're not allowed in". If ideas could be protected like that, > Microsoft and Amazon would not exist, and Seattle would be a poorer place. > > Michael Kay > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > -- <M:D/> M. David Peterson http://www.xsltblog.com
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