From: Thursday <nospam@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T23:16:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Open Source Licenses against Software Patents

Thursday wrote:
> If software patents are banished, something should be offered in its 
> place which would:
> 
> 1. encourage inventors to spend the upfront time & money to invent 
> non-trivial software
> 
> 2.  to fully describe their new inventions to the general public in 
> sufficient detail for others to successfully create the invention

And perhaps most importantly:

3.  help protect small companies and startups from being raped by 
established companies who copycat their novel & non-obvious inventions 
and crush them with superior marketing & brand-name recognition