From sf@fermigier.com Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:09:02 +0100
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 23:09:02 +0100
From: Stefane Fermigier sf@fermigier.com
Subject: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Re: [Patents] Patent problem

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 02:48:59PM -0700, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     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.

Right. That's my position from day one. Tracking truly absurd
patents and find prior art to bust the ones with high visibility
(e.g. 1-click) is good to keep the public informed about the issues,
but what's really important for us in Europe is the battle at
the European Commission level.
	
	S.

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