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I thought your question was rhetorical... | 478 comments | Create New Account
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I thought your question was rhetorical...
Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 05:49 PM EDT
so I left it unanswered.

The courts have said very clearly, sweat doesn't qualify anything for a patent
or copyright. Invention and/or creativity does.

I argue that the Lotus 123 interface WAS an invention..and not a trivial one.
Kapor learned important principles of user interaction (like showing people
where things lead without doing them), and applied them to create a user
interface to the spreadsheet which was significantly easier to use and learn
than anything that preceded it. That reeks of invention to me...concrete,
useful, new, not obvious until copied, specific, reduced to practice in
commerce.

The *spirit* of the patent/copyright system is to encourage "progress"
by helping out inventors such as that. The resources I need aren't hardware;
I've got more PCs than I can really use in my life as it is, and anyone who
would help me is in the same situation. High-quality Mind time, and someone to
keep me energised is the resource.

Pauli's(?) reputed instructions to his assistant come to mind: Your job is to
contradict everything I say in the strongest possible terms....

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