Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!rex!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!dali.cs.montana.edu!milton!roger From: roger@wrq.com (Roger Fulton) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: A sad day... Message-ID: <18053@milton.u.washington.edu> Date: 8 Mar 91 21:58:00 GMT References: <13151@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Mar8.030208.9017@nntp-server.caltech.edu> Sender: news@milton.u.washington.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Walker Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA Lines: 43 [I've never flamed a spelling error before, but this is just too much.] In article <1991Mar8.030208.9017@nntp-server.caltech.edu> woody@nntp-server.caltech.edu (William Edward Woody) writes: ... >Or how about the patient (recently upheld in England) concerning alpha ^^^^^^^ ... >backstore, and other clearly software techniques to be patiented, copyrighted, ^^^^^^^ >and protected, explicitly outside of the relm of protection that patients, ^^^^^^^ ... >which can be executed by a machine) is NOT patientable. (Copyrights explicitly ^^^^^^^ ... >omit languages; patients omit codified procedures or algorithms.) ^^^^^^^ . -- Roger Fulton roger@wrq.com