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To: vibaby who wrote (5875)7/15/1999 10:55:00 PM
From: Don Lloyd  Read Replies (1) of 10309
 
vibaby -

(...For the last 10 years patents have proven to be the only way you can protect intellectual property in the software area. Copyrights only protect code and not creative solutions and non-specific inventions.)

This may very well be true, but is also irrevelvent. Creative solutions and non-specific inventions in software that also have significant long term market value are few and far between. Any potential WIND customer, given time and money, could internally produce whatever they might obtain from WIND or a functional substitute. If WIND cannot provide a timely, cost effective solution to a real customer problem, then it will fail, no matter how many patents it may or may not have.

Regards, Don


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