[Patents] On GPL Ideas and Limited Software Patentability

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

Dear Mr Aharonian,
I very much appreciate your comments.

>From my point of view, though, your statement was really offending me
because what I'm trying to protect would not be protected.

I will discuss with my legal contacts if I can go further with this.

        Best regards
        Roland

On Tue, 8 May 2001, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> When I said "I doubt highly if your ideas could stand the tests of
> novelty and obviousness", that wasn't slander, but a statistical
> assertion on the probability of something really new in the field of
> pattern recognition (and frankly, the phrase "data mining" is mostly
> a word used by marketing types).
>
> Now if I said you had the intelligence of an amoeba, that might be
> slander, but I didn't say that.
>
> Or if I said your emails are hard to distinguish from the random outpu
> of a Net bot, that might be slander, but I didn't say that.
>
> Or if I said your ability to argue logically is as pathetically low as
> your ability to research what you are ranting and raving about, that
> might be slander, but I didn't say that.
>
> Or if I accused you of being nothing more than an a fake email address
> serving as an alter ego for Hartmut in order to make it look like more
> people support his point of view, that might be slander for one or both
> of you (depending on which one is real and which one is virtual), but I
> didn't say that.
>
> However what I think in mind is another matter, which unfortunately you
> can't sue me for.
>
> In the words of one of World War II's greatest tank commander, Oddball,
> "Ruff Ruff Ruff" :-)
>
> Greg Aharonian
>
> _______________________________________________
> Patents maillist  -  Patents@liberte.aful.org
> http://liberte.aful.org/mailman/listinfo/patents
>