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   Re: [xml-dev] Another Microsoft XML patent

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  • To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Another Microsoft XML patent
  • From: "M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@gmail.com>
  • Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 07:53:58 -0600
  • Cc: Stefan Tilkov <stefan.tilkov@innoq.com>, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@gmail.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
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  • Reply-to: "M. David Peterson" <m.david.x2x2x@gmail.com>

> 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@saxonica.com> 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
> 
> 
> 


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M. David Peterson
http://www.xsltblog.com




 

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