From kodama@netcourrier.com  Mon May  7 09:06:20 2001
From: kodama@netcourrier.com (kodama@netcourrier.com)
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 10:06:20 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: [Patents] American Inventor Coalition / was Re: Software and Technical effect
Message-ID: <mnet3.989222779.13069.kodama@netcourrier.com>

> The most funny about that is that people who push forward patents  > are=
 patent lawyers who have, at 99.9999 %, never programmed =

> themselves, and who do not know a heck about algorithms.
> Would you really want to enter a programming contest ?
> How many famous (that is, respected by their peers) pro-patent
> programmers can you cite ?

I may suppose you win a point,
but two other questions :

1) is =22software engineering=22 only =22programming=22 ? (versus architec=
tures, protocols etc.)

2) could you cite some major R&D employers of software programmers who are=
 against software patents ? =


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