From phm@a2e.de  Mon Jun 18 09:12:04 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:12:04 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Appology to Gregory Aharonian
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.32.0106180500480.3175-100000@igloo.df.lth.se>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0106181002430.19095-100000@querty.oas.a2e.de>

> I would like to appologies for my apperant missinterpertation of when
> Gregory said
>
> > History is full of way too many horrors when a lot of people
> > agreed tosomething that was not based on logic - Europe being the scene
> > of most such horrors.
>
> I interpreted this as refereing to WWII but that was not what Gregory had
> intended.

Actually if you refer to genocide (during WWII and other times) then you
may find that a lot of it is actually based on a kind of cruel logic
rather than on emotions.

I guess Greg is really upset by the 80000 signatures and from time to time
needs to explain this by some widespread American sentiment of being the
better continent that left all the atrocities of history behind in bad old
Europe.  Although there is some truth in that sentiment, it is not quite
correct: the USA, like some other countries, is actually based on
land-taking and, in a cruelly logical consequence, genocide.  Moreover, if
the US was somewhat more fortunate in avoiding some recent historical
accidents that fully hit Europe, the future may hold that, as far as
patent inflation is concerned, the fates will be distributed the other way
around.  At least, as far as Europe is concerned, we have made some
progress toward that goal.

--
Hartmut Pilch                                           http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation	      http://swpat.ffii.org/
80000 signatures against software patents         http://www.noepatents.org/




