Re: Apple II vs Atari 800

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

"Rick Cortese" <ricortes@earthlink.net> wrote in message 
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> Russg wrote:
>
>> I see it as a problem with legaleze.
>> I can't understand the US Patent office statement.
>> And I can't really understand the argument here.
>
> Russ, a patent grants you rights in exchange for ~telling the secret. If 
> you have already told people how to do the trick, i.e. published, it isn't 
> a secret anymore is it?
>
> The gist of Sphincter Boy's argument is he thinks you can pantent 
> something after been published/become common knowledge. He could not be 
> more wrong.
>
> He is just a troll, ignore him and his BS. I killfiled him already and I 
> can safely say he nothing intelligent to offer on the topic.
>
> Rick

You couldn't be more wrong about Michael.

Charlie