Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 11:48:49 +0000 (GMT) From: "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, <cjclark@alum.mit.edu>, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Use of the UNIX Trademark [was:] Correction Message-ID: <20011011114022.C10549-100000@big> In-Reply-To: <20011011133220.C21489@lpt.ens.fr>
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > Dag-Erling Smorgrav said on Oct 11, 2001 at 13:13:35: > > Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> writes: > > > Rahul Siddharthan said on Oct 10, 2001 at 23:35:39: > > > > knockoffs. Of course, food recipes and clothing designs are > > > > protected by copyright, and never have been. > > > Are *not* protected by copyright, I meant. > > > > Yes, I believe they are, but the processes they describe aren't, so > > you can publish a cookbook with recipes you collected from other > > cookbooks as long as you rewrite them in your own words. > > That was the point: the dish prepared by the cordon bleu chef is not > copyrighted. Whereas, Mickey Mouse is; you can't retell the cartoon > story in your own words; you can't even use the Mickey Mouse > character. > > In the context of patents, it's the argument of product patent versus > process patent. Countries like India have long allowed process > patents on pharmaceuticals (like copyrighting the recipe), but WTO > rules mandate product patents (like copyrighting the dish). So here we really returned to our UN*X-problem. Ted means the process of programming when he talks about UNIX, TOG means a product-specification. And the latter is patented. Uli. ************************************ * P. U. Kruppa - Wuppertal * * Germany * * www.pukruppa.de www.2000d.de * ************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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