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11457: Re: [MUD-Dev] patents and muds
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From: Mik Clarke <mikclrk@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:43:36 +0000
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
"Sellers, Michael" wrote:
>
> But: I would not be surprised to see examples of bona fide advances in
> MMPOGs start to appear in patents.
So just be able to prove you published it first and thier patent will
be invalid (unless they cite you as prior-art). That's one of the
nice things about open source - you cannot patent something that has
been published.
Do we need a date-stamped archive for code bases?
Mik
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