From phm@a2e.de  Tue Aug 14 21:45:12 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 22:45:12 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Re: EPO 1978: programs vs inventions (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0108142245060.8469-100000@querty.oas.a2e.de>

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
Subject: Re: EPO 1978: programs vs inventions
To: intprop-l@topica.com

> > But the physical processes that they describe could be inventions.
> >
> By the some token processes comprising data or information could also be
> inventions.

No, because "data" are not physical entities, and "information" even less
so.

Some people have been quite fanatically trying to negate the difference
between logical and physical objects.  By transferring the rules
of a reality governed by physical restraints to the sphere of information
and human mind, they hope to establish a regime that promises the same
kind of profit margins and prestige as the physical-based industry
entails.  But that is an illusion.  In reality the result is
the enslavement of the human mind, equating of mind with machine, and
negation of human dignity --- a misanthropic control-freak ideology, which
is unfortunately shared by quite a few people in high positions and may,
if we are unlucky, take a further generation to overcome.

--
Hartmut Pilch                                           http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation	      http://swpat.ffii.org/
85000 signatures against software patents         http://www.noepatents.org/

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