Censorship ('twas: Re: [Patents] Burce Perens: Software Patents vs. Free Software)

[critto@poczta.wp.pl (Krzysztof Sobolewski)]

From:                   Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
To:                     patents@liberte.aful.org,
        Anders Holtsberg <anders.holtsberg@decuma.com>
Subject:                Re: [Patents] Burce Perens: Software Patents vs. 
Free Software
Date sent:              Fri, 4 May 2001 03:51:30 -0400 (EDT)

> >My programs are literature.
> 
> Whoopee.  That means absolutely nothing.  My VHDL listings describing my
> hardware system are literature as well.  So I guess that means that you
> think that both software and hardware should be protected by copyright,
> and like the others on this list, against patenting for both hardware and
> software.  Confess your real intentions.

You'd better confess YOUR intents, Greg, because you really 
seem to be willing to CENSOR this literature. If software is 
literature (and it IS), then the "legal" prohibition to produce it and 
distribute such produced pieces is equal to CENSORSHIP.
What about 1st Amendment, Greg ?? Okay, I know that the 
lawyers will pervert everything, as they've done with 1st A., too, eg. 
by the means of "obscene" speech and so on. Is censorship the 
thing you really want to have, Greg ?? 

But we, in Europe, really value the freedom of speech. Especially 
we, in Poland and other ex-commie countries, where the 
censorship was really strict. And so, we will NOT let you, or 
anybody other, to impose the sw-patent slavery AND censorship 
on us.

     In Liberty,
        Critto

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