From: "Rudy L. Zijlstra" <rudy@edsons.demon.nl>
To: "Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando" <gorlando@futuretg.com>
Cc: "Markus Törnqvist" <mjt@nysv.org>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com
Subject: Re: implementing reiserfs in C++ for a new OS
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:55:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4119ECF5.4060605@edsons.demon.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4119EA9B.7090503@futuretg.com>
Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote:
> Markus Törnqvist wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:10:16AM +0200, Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> The reason Bell got his product pushed to the market was that he
>>>> could patent it first.
>>>>
>>>
>>> False.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Why then?
>>
>> Meucci did not have enough money to push it?
>> So Meucci had bad luck, that's life, unfortunately.
>>
>>
> Meucci open the file for copyright before Bell, but seems it is
> necessary to renew each year.
>
> Therefore, he don't renew.
>
> The word "inventor" in the US, means generally "rich". This have
> another sense outside America, or
> for immigrant people.
>
>
Aren't the two of you confusing copyright and patents? In my shortened
laymen terms, a copyright is about the expression, a patent about the
idea (and the expressions of it).
Cheers,
Rudy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-11 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-07 13:11 implementing reiserfs in C++ for a new OS Ramachandra K
2004-08-07 14:54 ` Redeeman
2004-08-07 15:05 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-07 15:11 ` Redeeman
2004-08-07 17:51 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-09 14:36 ` Ramachandra K
2004-08-09 14:52 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-09 15:09 ` Marcelo Pacheco
2004-08-09 15:12 ` mjt
2004-08-09 15:22 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-09 15:35 ` mjt
2004-08-09 17:01 ` Chris Dukes
2004-08-09 17:24 ` mjt
2004-08-10 5:26 ` Ramachandra K
2004-08-10 19:12 ` Quinn Harris
2004-08-10 19:51 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-10 21:19 ` mjt
2004-08-10 22:05 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 4:54 ` Spam
2004-08-11 6:08 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 10:11 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-08-11 16:43 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 16:47 ` mjt
2004-08-11 16:55 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-08-11 17:36 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 17:42 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-11 17:44 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-08-11 20:40 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-11 23:12 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 17:16 ` Chris Dukes
2004-08-11 17:26 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-08-11 17:40 ` mjt
2004-08-11 17:42 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 17:16 ` Alex Zarochentsev
2004-08-11 17:42 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 20:21 ` Spam
2004-08-12 14:44 ` mjt
2004-08-11 7:39 ` mjt
2004-08-11 7:51 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 8:01 ` mjt
2004-08-11 8:10 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-11 8:28 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 9:00 ` mjt
2004-08-11 9:44 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-11 9:55 ` Rudy L. Zijlstra [this message]
2004-08-11 10:18 ` Nikita Danilov
2004-08-11 16:51 ` Hans Reiser
2004-08-11 10:54 ` mjt
2004-08-11 11:07 ` Christophe Saout
2004-08-11 12:12 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-11 12:39 ` mjt
2004-08-11 13:04 ` Dr. Giovanni A. Orlando
2004-08-11 13:21 ` mjt
2004-08-11 23:22 ` Tom Vier
2004-08-12 14:47 ` mjt
2004-08-11 22:04 ` David Greaves
2004-08-09 15:17 ` Jonathan Briggs
[not found] <20040808020024.746D415C29@mail03.powweb.com>
2004-08-08 2:11 ` David Dabbs
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