[Patents] French State secretary for Industry against SoftPat

[mva@df.lth.se (Martin Wahlén)]

> Free software and patented software have to coexist. I regret the
> dictatorship of the lobby of free software.

Dictatorship? I just love the way you argue. Here in northern europe this
insult would be enough to disqualify (you could speak but people would
probably not listen to you) you from public debate for a few months
(until people forget).

So where will you draw the line in the future? Pierre, where will the line
between what is patentable and not be drawn? I assume that you dont think
that we should grant patents on things like new artforms? But yet you are
willing to let math be patented, so why are you descriminating against
other fields?

I know that Greg knows alot about computer science, probably alot that you
or I don't. I am simply a student but I am at a stage where I am studing
for my mastersthesis, but here computer science is the study of
[mathematical] problems (What is computable and why or why not?).

Martin