RE: [PHP4BETA] Professional PHP by Schumann

Derek Neighors wrote... > Software patents are BAD! I agree we should be combatting the > law as well. However, I question your philosphy here. As Amazon is > exploiting the law. There is nothing wrong with software patents. Unless you have a boni fide right to the patent, it's useless. Amazon has a patent on an idea that has been widely published publicly by the open source community in the myriad of free shopping cart systems available (the better ones written in php). As soon as one good outfit fights back the patent is toast. How many little guys get squished in the meantime is not a result of the patent, rather the system that allows that sort of exploit. Earlier, Zeev Suraski mentioned... > As I said in my other post, it's not Amazon that should be blamed, it's the > system that might allow them to actually register this as a software > patent. Bingo. Regards Mike Robinson ------------------------------------------- Windows 2000 is certified not to crash more than once a day, so what is the bootup time, 24 hours? --Sam Liddicott, PHP Mailing List