Can Microsoft ruin XML with patents?

[Gabriel Sechan]

>From: Brian Deacon <brian at navelplace.com>

>On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:27:39AM -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote:
> > We all need to remember thatour intellectual property system was NOT
> > invented to protect artists or anyones "right" to make money off of 
>their
> > work. It was created to get as much creative work into the public domain
> > as possible. The founding fathers said as much.
>
>Can anyone point me to a primary source on this claim?  Not singling
>you out, Tracy -- I have no reason to believe it's not true... but I
>also have no evidence other than OSS folklore that it -is- true.
>
>I'd like to be able to make the above argument and have something more
>to back it with than "I heard it on teh intarnet."
>
How about the Constitution itself?  It says that copyrights and patents are 
"to promote the useful arts and sciences", not to make money.

Gabe

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