Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 19th Nov 2001 19:44 UTC
Today, OSNews features an interview with Zac Woodall, software design Engineer at Office Data and Developer Services at Microsoft Corporation. Zac, who is also a frequent OSNews reader, talks about the new Office, .NET, WindowsXP, NTFS and how it compares to BFS filesystem, the GPL & open source movement and much more.
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Just to keep the record straight...
I read in a few posts where patents are about ideas. No. You cannot patent an idea. You can only patent an invention. You don't patent the idea behind a hoola-hoop, you patent the hoola-hoop. If you COULD patent an idea, it would be much to broad and stifle competition. For example, let's say I patented the idea behind a six-shot revolver, that means you probably could not patent or even produce a seven or five shot revolver.
Patent=invention
Have a good one!