[Courses] [gimp] GIF patent

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Sunday 20 Feb 2005 8:26 am, Mary wrote:
> [1] They're different things: copyright is a legal right to control
> copies of a creative work, a patent is a legal monopoly for a period of
> time over a design/process/idea.

strange are the ways of the world! I'm a lawyer - at a recent linux meet i 
gave a coupla talks on programming to a hall full of programmers, and several 
people protested that if lawyers started programming, programmers would lose 
their jobs. And then i listened to *four* talks on law by computer 
programmers - so what happens to the lawyer's jobs? 

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