[Patents] natural forces

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:09:44PM -0500, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> Bernard Lang writes:
> >You are incredibly persuasive when arguing against all forms of 
> >patenting.  I personally would not go that far, but it is
> >unquestionably your right.
> 
> I congratulate you as someone opposed to all patent rights

You have no ground for such a statement ... and I have made that
clear publicly on many occasions, not just here.

> to 
> assign to me a position I never have asserted.  A brilliant
> strategy to portray yourself as a champion of a system you
> are trying to eliminate,

believe me, I am not ... except for software

> to take the "ropes" of my argument to "hang" the system.

I just read that you did not consider patents as necessary for
innovation ... and it did not seem to be in jest ... my mistake
possibly.
  Then I only had to apply the relevant part of your Constitution.
Where is the problem ?

> Is the middle initial of your name
> either V or L?

Sorry, but I do not get that joke ... cultural gap

Bernard

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