[Linux-aus] FOSS patent infringements

[Anthony Towns]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:06:42PM +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
> If the system worked, The Patent Office would publish huge multi-volume
> sets of books called "How Things Work" which would be full of lucid
> prose and be amazingly gobsmackingly useful.  Experimenters would first
> consult "How Things Work" to avoid reinventing the wheel.  Inventors
> applying for patents would submit said lucid prose.

Heh, sounds kinda like wikipedia...

Cheers,
aj

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