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that we use their software! MS is used that everyone uses their software because it is some kind of "standard". This will change and I hope this will change fast. Then they will need to persuade us for using their software. They will have to advertise a lot more than they used to. But this won't help anymore. And when they will recognize that the majority of users are happy with Open Source and free software, they will have to withdraw from such crippled CDs or license keys. Right now they don't have to advertise and they don't have to care much about their customer's wishes. It's like Intel: We all are used to "the new prices" from Intel every 3 months. This is how you can detect a monopoly: Someone sets the price and you have to pay it. Same thing with MS. They set the price, they set the rules we have to play with if we want to use their software. Only one thing helps: Using and developing free software. Kajetan
Hi! This was a good post, because there seem to be a lot of misunderstanding. You can't patent the pure sequence, this is what you said. What does the human genome project do then? Just sequencing and publishing doesn't keep anyone off from using this information, thinking about the amino acids some parts encode, and patenting it. This whole thing seems strange: All the biotech was developed with public funding and now some companies should be able to patent certain sequences? This can't work and I'm sure this will be corrected some day, i.e. only drugs can be patented which use a certain sequence for their effect. Kajetan Hinner
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that we use their software! MS is used that everyone uses their software because it is some kind of "standard". This will change and I hope this will change fast. Then they will need to persuade us for using their software. They will have to advertise a lot more than they used to. But this won't help anymore. And when they will recognize that the majority of users are happy with Open Source and free software, they will have to withdraw from such crippled CDs or license keys. Right now they don't have to advertise and they don't have to care much about their customer's wishes. It's like Intel: We all are used to "the new prices" from Intel every 3 months. This is how you can detect a monopoly: Someone sets the price and you have to pay it. Same thing with MS. They set the price, they set the rules we have to play with if we want to use their software. Only one thing helps: Using and developing free software. Kajetan
Hi!
This was a good post, because there seem to be a lot of misunderstanding.
You can't patent the pure sequence, this is what you said. What does the human genome project do then? Just sequencing and
publishing doesn't keep anyone off from using this information, thinking about the amino acids some parts encode, and patenting it.
This whole thing seems strange: All the biotech was developed with public funding and now some companies should be able to patent certain sequences? This can't work and I'm sure this will
be corrected some day, i.e. only drugs can be patented which use a certain sequence for their effect.
Kajetan Hinner