[Patents] ABstracts to articles on hardware/software codesign

[PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de]

> >     I have repeatedly referred to the existence of hardware/software
> > codesign tools as part of a basis for requiring that hardware and
> > software equally be patentable (or not patentable).  
> 
> And you always refused the counter-arguments which were reiterated many

I meant:  refused to comment on the counter-arguments

> times because you reiterated your long-refuted arguments many
> times.  Which is why calling you a troll is just an objective statement
> of fact.

At least in the specific use of Newsnet and mailing lists, a troll is
someone who spills the mailing list with repetitious arguments and fails
to react to counter arguments, coming up with the same old stuff over and
over again.  Many people do that simply because their mind is not trained
for interaction with other people's arguments and feels secure only on
certain well-known familiar grounds.  The lawyers of the GD for the
Internal Market for instance will not interact with anything that software
people or economists say.  Even when talking about informatics or
economics, they will always fall back into legal details, because that is
what they are trained to think about and where they feel secure.

-phm