[Patents] Re: World Intellectual Property Day is April 26, 2001

[pubs@linuxwaves.com (l b)]

I apologize.  You were an unintended recipient.  I cut and paste too many 
addresses, and didn't scroll through the whole address window before I sent 
it.



--- Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>
> wrote:
>Roland says:
>Somebody calling itself "l b <pubs@linuxwaves.com>" obviously has
>unsubscribed to some list by telling us:
>> Mr. Pilch,
>> 
>> I have unsubscribed from this list.
>> 
>> Good luck with your pissing contest.
>
>Roland continues:
>As this person obviously used "BCC" or some other anonymous way of
>forwarding the list, whichever it was, I got the message from somewhere,
>I forward this reply to patents@liberte.aful.org and some of the
>other lists which I found to be the most likely recipients, from my own
>perspective.
>
>I think it is a good advice to anyone speaking in circumstances like
>these that they sign whatever they write with their full name if
>it's not obvious from their mail signature who they are.
>
>Any person can think that something expressed by some other person
>maybe be stupid, limited, greedy, threathening, dangearous or whatever.
>Irony, which I think Mr Pilch expressed earlier, considering measuring
>"technical height" may be misunderstood for instance, as irony is very
>context dependent.
>
>To keep a sane debate, especially on mailing lists and usenet, I see it
>very important that we stick to being persons, representing who we are
>and what we stand for.
>
>Anonymous chat lists and such certainly fill some needs for some people
>but to make mailing lists a serious debate forum it is essential that
>we never forget that we are persons speaking with persons. Mailing
>lists have a tendency to make people act more extreme and emotional.
>
>For my own I was debating on a mailing list for a local association 
>here one year ago and the cashier there, one time said something bad
>about open-source in a very similar provocative style as Mr Smith.
>I simply told this person that he will regret this. Later on this person
>said something similar but this time even offending. I calmly said that I
>don't want to be a member of an association where someone in the board
>can express themselves in this way. The person quit, and later on sold his
>company as well, and the association was almost extinct for a while as
>we had been running on his servers..
>
>Considering Mr Smith I'm very surprised when I heard that he is a famous
>writer in a pro software patent magazine. Then I would not expect such
>immature offending statements which he had expressed (almost anonymously)
>in his mail (but later heard that he have had on his now removed web pages
>as well, which of course is OK as long as he can stand for them).
>
>Anyway, I've been working with logics and math for 20 years and I've found
>that 
>     * the idea about software patents is based upon contradictions
>
>I will later prove that more formally, also with a more thorough explanation
>why this is a threat to the whole world.
>
>I want a free world based upon fair business and competition which is
>based upon skills and not upon monopoly.
>
>I don't believe in the so called intellectual property and business based
>upon this myth, will either fail or be harmful.
>
>A system which is based upon contradictions will not be stable.
>
>Apart from being based upon contradiction, patenting software is from
>my perspective insane and will lead to terrible consequences in the long
>run. I will elaborate more on this later.
>
>       Roland Orre
>       Professional software developer
>       Towards a free world without monopolies
>
>PS. I actually have a patent since 12 years considering a method for storing
>certain types of information in artificial intelligence systems, but at
>that time I did not understood better and was persuaded by my employer.
>Sorry for that...

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