From phm@a2e.de  Wed Oct 11 23:12:31 2000
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 01:12:31 +0200 (CEST)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] why the problem arises in the software field

> >This whole patent movement is imho the sickest emanation of the cultural
> >revolution of this century.  All values that previously organised society
> >were destroyed and only money became the organising tool.
> 
> So why I am wrong to assume that some of you on this list are not just
> against software patents, but against all patents as this quote implies?
> The above quote could care less about hardware or software patents,
> and certainly would not need to waste any time trying to justify some
> distinction between hardware and software for patenting purposes.  It
> is all forms of patenting being questioned.

No.
By "patent movement" I meant the "movement to extend the patent system to
all spheres of life".
I should have written this more clearly, but I think it can be understood
from context.

-phm






