From jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org  Wed May  9 18:57:46 2001
From: jtobey@john-edwin-tobey.org (John Tobey)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 13:57:46 -0400
Subject: Please stop jokeing, Roland .... ('twas: Re: [Patents] Re: On GPL Ideas and Limited Software Patentability)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0105091904580.16217-100000@faun.nada.kth.se>; from orre@nada.kth.se on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:21:39PM +0200
References: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105091828360.25127-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de> <Pine.SOL.4.30.0105091904580.16217-100000@faun.nada.kth.se>
Message-ID: <20010509135746.B29921@john-edwin-tobey.org>

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:21:39PM +0200, Roland Orre wrote:
> 
> If you should be able to patent something it is the "leaves" in
> this tree, but not the "forks". Considering software there are
> no "leaves", so software is not patentable.

Well said!

-John


