From phm@a2e.de  Fri Aug 17 07:53:50 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 08:53:50 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Meta] Re: [Patents] <no object>
In-Reply-To: <200108161820.OAA04620@world.std.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0108170847350.848-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Gregory Aharonian wrote:

> John writes about Bernard=B4s politics:
> >Bernard=B4s reply sought to poke a pin in Greg=B4s balloon.
>
> Which is no excuse for these irrelevant political analogies.
> Does American politics have a problem?  Sure.  But does the politics
> of Bernard=B4s France have its problem?  Yes, as well.  Does the politics
> of Hartmut=B4s Germany have its problem?  Yes, as well.  So it is much
> better manners to avoid these self-cancelling political references
> because they add no value.  And I would say this, even if I wasn=B4t
> Algerian or Turkish (which is a cheap shot attack).

Indeed, because relations with Turkish or Algerian immigrants are domestic
problems.
You would have to try talking about something international, e.g. Kosovo.
The swpat questions has some international aspects, such as TRIPS, which
you like to cite, and from which this whole discussion started.
Also, the US government has pressed countries like Jordania to allow
patenting of abstract and mathematical methods.
It is a wide felt impression that the US government is even more
thouroughly than some other governments in the hands of what Chomsky
called "private tyrannies".  RMS often speaks about "the American big
corporations and their servant, the US government".
Many people fear that this tendency has been aggravated by the election
(?) of George W. Bush.

All this is not irrelevant to the discussion, but also not directly
relevant and in most cases only a way of de-focussing.

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