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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Reasoning by analogy (was Re: Software, development & copyrights)
Message-ID: <4566@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 14 Aug 89 22:55:40 GMT
References: <44223@bbn.COM>
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From article <44223@bbn.COM>, by cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell):
>...  And so, as I say: if *I* got to tweak
>the laws about software, I would probably NOT make them be
>copyright-like, but rather I would try to figure out how to make them
>more patent-like.

Patent protection seems more appropriate for many aspects of software
systems, as you say.  But why make a special case in the law for
software?  I suggested, as others have, that software should be judged
to have or not have copyright protection on the same basis as other
works of art or science.  Let it be the same for patents, or contracts,
or trade secrets -- whatever.
				Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu