From srctran@world.std.com  Tue Oct 10 18:57:37 2000
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 14:57:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gregory Aharonian srctran@world.std.com
Subject: [Patents] Re: french views

>I want to be shown an invention which deserved a patent because
>it took large amounts of funding to discover it, and would not be
>profitable without a patent.

The amount of time and resources needed to create an invention has
never been a criteria for determining a patent, and is idiotic when
you think about it - it would reserve the patent system to only
those with lots of time and money.

Increasingly these discussions are focussing more and more not on
getting rid of software patents, but all patents.  If that is the
intent of this list, we might as well close it down.

Greg Aharonian




