Re: [fielding@apache.org: Review of proposed Apache License, version 2.0]
On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 10:15:40AM -0800, Ken Arromdee wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > > (And this still applies just as much to software licenses. It is
> > > *hard* to gain a copyright license; you have to create the work. To
> > > gain a software patent, you merely have to describe the general method
> > > by which you could create it. I find it highly unlikely that patent
> > > lawyers cost appreciably more than software developers)
> >
> > I'm a software developer. So the services of one may, under some
> > circumstances, cost me nothing at all (except my spare time). I don't think
> > patent lawyers can get cheaper than this.
> You could go to law school and become a patent lawyer.
But that's not cheap. Going to law school costs a lot of money. Becoming a
software developer only requires buying a computer, which costs a lot less.
Besides, researching and filing patents still has some costs even if you're
already a lawyer and don't need to hire one.
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