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> 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. Very well stated and very good point. Please keep in mind that I agree that in almost every case software patents are bogus. Just not in every case. 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 > > > -- <M:D/> M. David Peterson http://www.xsltblog.com
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