From rms@gnu.org Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:48:59 -0700 (MST)
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 14:48:59 -0700 (MST)
From: Richard Stallman rms@gnu.org
Subject: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Patent problem

    and the make-money-at-busting-patents that Gregory Aharonian is doing
    at www.bustpatents.com.

It is a lot more work to bust patents one by one than to prevent them from
being adopted in the first place.  And not all patents are trivial.
A patent for a real new idea may be legally valid, but it still endangers
programmers generally, and it still screws free software.




