From seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org  Thu Jun 14 19:59:22 2001
From: seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org (Seth Johnson)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2001 14:59:22 -0400
Subject: [Patents] Re: Gene patents compared to software patents....
References: <87k82gv5yd.fsf@mulix.oas.a2e.de> <00cd01c0f431$d11baa80$a9b0fea9@flint1.mi.home.com> <3B27AB14.44CA9B7D@realmeasures.dyndns.org> <03af01c0f471$7297b2c0$a9b0fea9@flint1.mi.home.com> <3B2882E8.88B92196@b2xpress.com> <3B28ADB9.28C1D965@b2xpress.com>
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That's pretty succinct!

Very well put.

Seth Johnson
Committee for Independent Technology

Fredrik Ohrstrom wrote:
> 
> The result is that software patents are affecting my hobby and
> therefor my private life.  No other patent have done that before.
> Most people know the problems with software patents: overly broad,
> difficult to categorize, too many and that reinvention is VERY
> common. All of this makes it essentially impossible for me to
> know if I have violated any patents after a nice afternoon
> programming my pet projects. This scares me!



