[Patents] Hardware/software codesign

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:37:32PM -0500, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >> there is nothing special about software
> 
> > that is an unsubstantiated statement, contradicted by economists.
> 
> Here you lie.

Since you seem to love mathematical logic, absence of a quantifier
does not mean one or the other.

  Hence your statement that I lie is unproven

>  SOME, and I repeat, SOME economists, have come out
> critical against software patents.  Many other economists haven't,
> partly because it is very difficult to economically measure the
> impact of patents on any economic process, given the complexities
> of today's marketplace.

let me know of the others.

or ...  if economists cannot be trusted in general, you have no basis
to justify patents.

  ... and since patents are a restriction on freedom, I remind you
that the burden of the proof is on your side.

> SO if you are abandoning mathematical logic, and relying on economics
> to argue against software patents, I encourage you to do so (only
> because you are completely wasting your time doing so).
> 
> Greg Aharonian

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