[Patents] A comment on Prof. Pascual's paper

[Joaquin Seoane joaquin@dit.upm.es]

El jueves 14 de diciembre de 2000 a las 01:29:40 (-0500), Gregory Aharonian 
escribió:

>     I have read Prof. Pascual's paper.  

Thanks...

> If in Section 3 of his paper,
> you swap the concept of computer program with that of digital
> circuit (in both cases programming with VHDL), this altered Section
> 3 is as valid as the original. ...

Well, I think that a design written in VHDL is software.  In any case,
the paper sent was only to support the campaign against software patents
in Europe, not a campaign against patents. It was not written to have
an argument here.  I beleive like Mr. Aharonian that the patent system
is wrong, at least with regard to trivial "inventions".

Regards

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