From nico@monnet.to  Wed Oct 18 12:39:16 2000
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 14:39:16 +0200 (CEST)
From: Nicolas MONNET nico@monnet.to
Subject: [Patents] Re: Technical effect

On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Edward Avis wrote:

|On Wed, 18 Oct 2000 patents-request@liberte.aful.org wrote:
|
|>From: Steve Probert <steve.probert@patent.gov.uk>
|
|>>Following your reasoning the compress algorithms could (in theory) also be
|>>reproduced by mental acts, 
|>
|>I disagree.  I've been thinking hard about the data on my hard drive,
|>but I simply cannot make it shrink by just thinking about it.  
|>Therefore, it is not a mental act.
|
|You can think hard about a text file on your disk, and not correct the
|spelling errors just by thinking about it.

Now I just got a flash of wisdom:

When I think about them, software patents are a big problem.
When I DON'T think about them, they're much less!

Looks like we're up to something!





