From seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org  Wed Aug 15 02:50:31 2001
From: seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org (Seth Johnson)
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:50:31 -0400
Subject: [Patents] Re: EPO 1978: programs vs inventions (fwd)
References: <Pine.LNX.4.31.0108142245060.8469-100000@querty.oas.a2e.de>
Message-ID: <3B79D567.D658931E@Realmeasures.dyndns.org>

Straight up, dude!  This is *the* analysis!

Seth Johnson
Committee for Independent Technology

PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> 
> 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.



