From ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es  Fri May 11 19:14:37 2001
From: ramon@jl1.quim.ucm.es (Ram'on Garc'ia Fern'andez)
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:14:37 +0200
Subject: [Patents] On GPL Ideas and Limited Software Patentability
In-Reply-To: <16fe01c0da3a$aa8d01e0$6401a8c0@flint1.mi.home.com>; from rjriley@rjriley.com on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:51:45PM -0400
References: <Pine.SOL.4.30.0105090928040.14471-100000@faun.nada.kth.se> <16fe01c0da3a$aa8d01e0$6401a8c0@flint1.mi.home.com>
Message-ID: <20010511201436.A5072@jl1.quim.ucm.es>

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 12:51:45PM -0400, Ronald J Riley wrote:
> Rather than spending all your time railing about software patents, you
> should likely be looking at how you will cope with them.  The answer to this is
> with prior art.

So you admit that software patents are not very good, right? And that
there are many trivial patents, am I wrong?
 
Ramon


