On 10/1/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Kelsay</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:ripcrd@gmail.com">ripcrd@gmail.com</a>&gt; wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I have a hard time with understanding how the government via the<br>courts can allow patent suits, copyright claims, et al ad nauseum when<br>the person/company that sells the item disclaims all warranty for the<br>product and even states that &quot;it may not even be fit for the use it is
<br>intended.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Run with that Monty or someone.</blockquote><div><br></div></div>Well, copyright is easy.&nbsp; A book can by copyrighted regardless of any fitness for use. This email is Copyright (c) MMVII Monty J. Harder (portions Copyright Brian Kelsay). All rights reversed.
<br><br>A computer program is no different WRT copyright.&nbsp; I once wrote a package of little DOS utilities for shoehorning programs into the upper memory block corresponding to monochrome video, and explicitly disclaimed everything.&nbsp; The only thing I guaranteed the package to do was take up space on hard drives.&nbsp; 
<br><br>Now, patents are an entirely different kettle of fish as it were.&nbsp; One of the reasons I hate the term &quot;Intellectual Property&quot; is that it conflates these things.&nbsp; In order to get a patent, the thing you&#39;re trying to patent has to actually work.&nbsp; Arguably, this makes the burden of proof a bit higher on patent holders than on copyright holders.
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