From riel@conectiva.com.br  Tue Oct 10 19:14:37 2000
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:14:37 -0300 (BRST)
From: Rik van Riel riel@conectiva.com.br
Subject: [Patents] Re: french views

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Gregory Aharonian wrote:

> >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.

Please don't pin yourself down on that poorly written
paragraph, I meant -of course- software patents ...

regards,

Rik
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