[Patents] Romanian Patent Problem..

[Gregory Aharonian srctran@world.std.com]

>The 30,000 European software patents are all so absolutely trivial
>that there is no development cost work mentioning involved.

Nonsense.  Additionally, if one calculated the distribution of
development costs for software that is being patented, I suspect
that the distribution would be similar to that of the development
of digital hardware, where there are also plenty of trivial patents
and where development costs are not that great (especially when
using circuit design tools).

So once again you put forth an anti-patenting criteria as applicable
to software as many other fields.

Greg Aharonian