From orre@nada.kth.se  Wed May  9 21:00:49 2001
From: orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre)
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 22:00:49 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: [Patents] Pro Software Patents = Illegal
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0105092136580.25812-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0105092149060.17093-100000@alv.nada.kth.se>

Yes of course, there are a lot of people out there which are
in good faith.

I think the most essential thing now is to make it clear in an
understandable way for people, why software patents are illegal,
how they severly limit expansion of technology and necessarily
creates monopolies.

Soft ware patents are a threat to open source of course, but most
ordinary people have not understand the open source concept either.

We may need a logo, how about a tree with an infinitely expanding
tree without leaves and a large bleeding cut near the trunk where
a fork has been?

	Roland

On Wed, 9 May 2001, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> > This should make it clear!
> >
> > Anyone who is pro software patents is a deceiver.
> > To be a deceiver is illegal.
>
> Sorry, this doesn't make anything clear to me.
> Some people may be pro swpat in good faith.
> Also deceiving is commonplace in political discussions.
> If you wanted to outlaw that you would have to outlaw free speech.
>
> -phm
>
>
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