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This is probably very old news for everyone else, but I only just found out.
I went for a job at IBM, and they have this policy of trying to get everyone to get 3 patents each. If they do they get their photo put on the wall in a frame etc. They say this is a fairly common practice..
JohnFlux
At Cisco, it's like that too. You have also an online patent registration for the employee. (and you also get your name on the patent wall)
Of course, the copyright holder is Cisco and only Cisco.
I hope we can see in future a wall with all the employee doing Free Software under a "copyleft" style license.
Software Patent is really a pain.
adulau
On Sun, 12 May 2002, John Tapsell wrote:
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This is probably very old news for everyone else, but I only just found out.
I went for a job at IBM, and they have this policy of trying to get everyone to get 3 patents each. If they do they get their photo put on the wall in a frame etc. They say this is a fairly common practice..
JohnFlux
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On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 17:24, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote:
At Cisco, it's like that too. You have also an online patent registration for the employee. (and you also get your name on the patent wall)
Of course, the copyright holder is Cisco and only Cisco.
what have to do copyright with patents??? you meant the patent holder perhaps?
I hope we can see in future a wall with all the employee doing Free Software under a "copyleft" style license.
You can do that now! It may be a nice idea to have a web site with such wall.
Software Patent is really a pain.
Yes, we must fight hard to not let them pass through in nations where they do not yet exist, let USA stiffle it's own competion, and do not dictate also our market.
Simo.
On 12 May 2002, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 17:24, Alexandre Dulaunoy wrote:
At Cisco, it's like that too. You have also an online patent registration for the employee. (and you also get your name on the patent wall)
Of course, the copyright holder is Cisco and only Cisco.
what have to do copyright with patents??? you meant the patent holder perhaps?
Yes, the patent holder is Cisco. But also the implementation/documentation are copyrighted by the company itself. This is not fair for the employee but the employee doesn't see that directly... (he sees only his name on a wall (an internal wall ;-))
I hope we can see in future a wall with all the employee doing Free Software under a "copyleft" style license.
You can do that now! It may be a nice idea to have a web site with such wall.
Of course. Could be a also an approach for promoting the ethic of Free Software ? Finding companies that promote ethic and Free Software philosophy.
Software Patent is really a pain.
Yes, we must fight hard to not let them pass through in nations where they do not yet exist, let USA stiffle it's own competion, and do not dictate also our market.
Yes, but it's not so easy...
adulau
Simo.