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From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Subject: [Patents] Re: 80,000 signatures for software patent free Europe
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:41:49 +0200 (CEST)

> Again, you have to separate bad software patents from software patenting
> being bad.  I have argued for 8 years that way too many software patents
> are bad, at least 60 to 80 percent.

Your "bad" is not our "bad".

Your "bad" means "non-conformant to the rules of the patent system".

Our "bad" means "unacceptable from the viewpoint of a programmer".

There are worlds between those two standards, as you know.

see also

        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/frili/

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

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