[meta] [Patents] PLEASE DO NOT SEND THIS E-LETTER ANYMORE

[orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre)]

Dr Janice Williams,
I can unfortunately no longer acknowledge you as a serious
person, as you should certainly know how to unsubscribe.

This posting of yours can be nothing than the same way of immature
way to protest which I saw from several persons on the epo list
earlier regarding the quarrel a couple of days ago.
If you are not satisfied with what a list gives you, you can
always unsubscribe. Such protests as yours are just annoying
for the serious people on the list, in my language "unprofessional".

When I seriously asked the the epo list's view upon if I should stay
on the list a couple of days ago, as I obviously had annoyed a lot of
non critical persons there, who were not interested in my view, you
responded to me like:

-------- begin of Janice's to me regarding the epo list -----------
On Thu 3 May 2001, Dr Janice Williams wrote:
Don't worry! this list is mainly run by juveniles with a social age
of 14 who insult each other all the time.

>> I'm sorry if I've caused people on this list to become annoyed.
>>  I entered this mailing list a couple of days ago and its obvious
>>  that several persons on this list have found my presence and my
>> contributions to this list to be unprofessional or uncritical.
------------------------ end of Janice's reply -------------------

I can see your reply as nothing else than a try to get me acting
in an even more annoying way towards the epo to also annoy all
the serious people there.

        Best regards
        Roland Orre

>Nice repeat of the same old arguments against software patents.  And
>yet another example of an argument that can be applied to all other
>patents, especially hardware patents.  There is no longer any
>practical difference between the amount of effort, ingenuity and
>needed lifetime of hardware designs and software designs - the same
>tools are used, etc.  So Perens argument is as much an argument
>against most forms of patenting, once you subtract out the
>worshipping
>of software implicit in his arguments.
>
>Greg Aharonian