From phm@a2e.de  Tue Jan 23 22:47:17 2001
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 23:47:17 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] interview

> I'd also like to recommend some of the introductory texts on my website,
> available mostly in German and English, many also in French

also not to forget

	http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/pikta/
	European Software Patent Horror Gallery
	Musee d'Horreurs des Brevets Logiciels Europeens

This is the heart of what the whole debate is about.  All software patent
propagandists must be afraid to let people read some real patent
descriptions and take a look at the overwhelming number of patents that
have been granted, >99% of which are junk that any programmer who came
across the same problem would have found in a matter of hours if not
minutes.

Mr Breese is to be commended for having the courage to stand up publicly
and argue for this junk.

Really this junk is criminal evidence.  It should be thrown on the floor
or slapped into the face of Mr Breese and all those people who still have
the cheek to say that software patents serve to promote innovation.

-phm





