RE: Lawyers want to gut our tools

["Earl Cooley" <shiva -at- io -dot- com>]

> Earl Cooley wrote:
> > 
> > I have no sympathy for lawyers who want to interfere with the 
> > way we do our work.
> > 
> > "Macromedia Claims It Owns Adobe Patent"
> > <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011019/tc/patent_dispute_1.html>
> 
> ?????
> Lawyers are hired guns. Are you saying that Macromedia has no right to
> enforce its patent claims?? 
> 
> -- 
> Peter
> Mailto:peternew -at- optonline -dot- net

Not relevant. My needs are more important than any software patent ever 
devised. The blinking cursor is patented: does anyone pay royalties for 
that? It is my selfish desire that Adobe Photoshop not be destroyed by 
anyone. These two companies have been bludgeoning each other with 
patent disputes of questionable merit for a long time, to very little 
effect except to wastefully expend billable hours for lawyers. All of 
that money would have been better used to improve product quality. 

About the only lawyer I ever liked was Mike Godwin.

--
 e=sc^3 (shiva -at- io -dot- com) Earl Cooley III

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Announcing new options for IPCC 01, October 24-27 in Santa Fe,
New Mexico: attend the entire event or select a single day.  
For details and online registration, visit http://ieeepcs.org/2001

  Your monthly sponsorship message here reaches more than
  5000 technical writers, providing 2,500,000+ monthly impressions.
  Contact Eric (ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com) for details and availability.

---
You are currently subscribed to techwr-l as: archive -at- raycomm -dot- com
To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-techwr-l-obscured -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
Send administrative questions to ejray -at- raycomm -dot- com -dot-  Visit 
http://www.raycomm.com/techwhirl/ for more resources and info.