[Patents] Greg upset about "peace, love, linux"

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

From:                   PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
To:                     Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
Copies to:              <patents@aful.org>
Subject:                Re: [Patents] Greg upset about "peace, love, linux"
Date sent:              Tue, 26 Jun 2001 11:01:34 +0200 (CEST)

> 
> > In some cases, theorem proving predicate logic systems are being used to
> > invent, design and verify mechanical components and digital circuits,
> > the output of which can be not only the design, but a patent claim
> > corresponding to the design.
> 
> If a machine can obtain a patent, this leads at least a part of the above
> approach ad absurdum.

Well, the great Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem (you can 
buy&read most of his books in English, German, French, Spanish, 
Dutch, and many other languages, too) used to write about such 
problems many times.

The intelligent machines, the machine-government, the machine 
feelings, the cyborgs (I recommend "Do you exist, Mr. Jones?" -- a 
great story about a man sued by a company producing implants, 
but could they effectively sue him, if all parts of his body are 
implanted, so he's a 'machine' without a drop of human blood or 
piece of human body? Could they treat him like a machine, on the 
other hand?

Well, it's nice to consider such problems when writin' sci-fi or other 
fiction. It is, however, less nice to have to face them when some 
greedy lawyers want to take our freedom to create away.

    Yours in Liberty,
        Critto


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