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This analogy omits one aspect: when you step on a mine, you know it, but when you violate a patent, the patent holder might threaten you immediately, or might decide to let you continue to build you project on that idea and then threaten you.
 
This analogy omits one aspect: when you step on a mine, you know it, but when you violate a patent, the patent holder might threaten you immediately, or might decide to let you continue to build you project on that idea and then threaten you.
  
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==Literary patents==
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==Literature==
 
Again citing Richard Stallman:
 
Again citing Richard Stallman:
 
* http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html
 
* http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-literary-patents.html
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==Music==
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Again citing Richard Stallman:
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* http://www.ariel.com.au/a/rms-unsw.html
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* http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/buzz/stories/s1226098.htm
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* http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-121749.html (2nd last section, "If symphonies were patented")

Revision as of 10:26, 20 April 2009

Sometimes analogies help to explain this to people new to the area.

Minefield

Richard Stallman has frequently mentioned this analogy in parts of his speeches:

This analogy omits one aspect: when you step on a mine, you know it, but when you violate a patent, the patent holder might threaten you immediately, or might decide to let you continue to build you project on that idea and then threaten you.

Literature

Again citing Richard Stallman:

Music

Again citing Richard Stallman:

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