Re: open source. was Closed system (was: PC connection via twinax ?)

In other words, "It must be true, I read it on the internet!"

You have no real facts to support your statement. Your statement lacks
logical credibility. Even if patenting an idea to prevent its use is a
valid plan, that does not at all support your statement of "most patents
are filed..." for such a purpose. Nor do you seem to have any supporting
information that _any_ patents were filed for such a purpose.

When you have enough substantiating information, you could post, "One
patent was filed to ..." and then after that it could grow to "Some
patents..." and from there.

Leif Svalgaard wrote:

>From: Chris Rehm <javadisciple@earthlink.net>
>Leif Svalgaard wrote:
>
>>most patents are filed to prevent anybody from using the idea, even
>>
>>Most? What is the percentage? Where do you get this statistic? What
>>evidence do you have that this happens with any regularity, let alone
>>that "most" of patent filings are in this category?
>
>Chris,
>There are lots and lots of basic information on why patents and
>when/what to patent available on the web; try google and you'll
>see.
>

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