Re: [Freedos-devel] Executable compresison, part II

[Arkady V.B. <ar...@be...>]

Hi!

21-=ED=C1=D2-2004 04:15 _jo...@tm... (Johnson Lam) wrote to
fre...@li...:

>>     But later someone may say: "you stole may patended idea in your
>>program". What you will do?
JL> If the US or any country can drag someone into prison because of
JL> "stealing idea", this country or the world will come to an end soon.
JL> Because justice is no more, money wins all!

     Do you hear, that MS was pay 500,000,000 US$, because some small fir=
m
say "we patented idea of automatically launched applications" and applets=
 in
IE may launched automatically? Yes, now USPTO cancels this patent, but th=
ere
are a lot of more stupid patents - for example, in Australia, where paten=
ts
law is same, as in US, someone patended idea of wheel?

     Stupid-stupid-stupid... But: dura lex, sed lex. Undortunately, many
conressmans in USA think, that current patents law or laws like DMCA isn'=
t
stupid - whereas US government thinks, it may break law of other countrie=
s.
Remember that FBI intrude into computers in Russia, when arrest "russian
hackers" Gorshkov and Ivanov. Of course, those two guys was guilty, but F=
BI
breaks both US and Russia laws when intrude into computers without order.
Unfortunately, US judge was think, that US law not applied into Russia
country, but Russia laws not rules for FBI. :(