CompuServe Messages

Nelson, Digging back into my memory of patent/copyright law…. Ideas can not be copyrighted…expressions of those ideas can be. Ideas can not be patented…implementations of those ideas can be. If I say I've got an idea for a piece of software, but do nothing more…it's not protected. If I express that idea…either as pseudocode or as a series of drawings…that can be copyrighted. If I say I've got an idea for a new framitz, but do nothing to implement it…it's not protected. If I build my new framitz, I can then patent it…presuming it's a new and unique methodology for "framitzing". Now…the above is the way I remember things to be…I could be wrong, and if I am…hopefully someone versed in copyright/patent law will jump in and correct me (us). Don