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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: thought Dillon and friends would like to know
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Date: 30 Jul 90 08:27:14 GMT
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In article <90210.100908GRGREF@BYUVM.BITNET> GRGREF@BYUVM.BITNET writes:
>Actually, a patent *is* protection for ideas...a copyright is protection
>for an implementation.  The QuickSort algorithm (as an example) could be
>patented if (a) one specific person or group thought it up completely and
>(b) no one else had ever used it or even thought of it before.  (These are
>probably not the exact patent "rules", but I know they're pretty close.)
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You know?  You know nothing, dude!

Actually, you're *probably* more than a mile away from the exact patent
rules :-) In five lines you've demonstrated that you haven't the faintest
idea of what patents and copyrights protect. Both items have been covered
*quite extensively* not a long time ago, so may I suggest that you go
back and reread those messages, or better yet buy yourself a good book
on copyrights and patents or visit your local library.  *Read more
about it* (TM CBS Inc :-) before you dump some more garbage on this net.

-- Marco
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