[Wikipedia-l] Re: Languages: crossing a border?

Tue Apr 6 21:33:51 UTC 2004

Timwi wrote:
>Now some might say, "Ah, but you can copyright ideas!" 
>No, you can't. You can *patent* ideas. I am less sure 
>about whether a language (which  can be regarded as an 
>encoding for information) can be patented. Sonja,  how 
>about you go patent Toki Pona, and let us know how it went ;-) 

Hasn't Microsoft put some type of protection on C#? Haven't you heard of
proprietary languages? Not that I agree with such a thing, but we should be
careful. 

-- mav

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