Importance of trademarks (was RE: [OT] What is Open Source?....)

[Boris Borcic]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:


> And the lack of a "clean-room" defense creates a chilling effect on
> the whole industry because of the enormous cost of defending yourself
> against accusations of infringement.


After medicine, software development appears doomed to finance 
arbitrarily large populations of lawyers, at least under US law. Maybe 
this means physicians and software engineers should ally against that 
obfuscation industry. After all, due process should be a pathology 
correcting activity, and physicians and software engineers are both 
chiefly diagnostic-and-cure professionals.

Regards, Boris Borcic
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assert BOA in BAOBAB, "Paradise Mismatch Error"