From srctran@world.std.com  Mon Dec 10 22:55:28 2001
From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:55:28 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Patents] more inflammatory speeches from Greg
Message-ID: <200112102255.RAA05447@world.std.com>

Hartmut writes:

>Any complex program will however bear the mark of individual skill,
>imagination, etc., so there is enough for copyright to protect.

Wrong again.  All patentable inventions bear the meark of individual
skill, imagination, etc.  Complex programs are complex because of
their structures, processes and methods.  Which once again, like all
other areas of technology, fall under the patent system.  And specific
instances of such complex structures, processes and methods for new
software inventions are only common to civilization if they aren't
novel or are obvious.  But those are determinations of the patent
system.

The only way I can see to resolve this in your mind is to assume that
you want no protection for software, patent or copyright, because you
assert false strengths of copyright while rejecting patents.  But the
laws that non-criminals must obey for copyright reject most uses of
copyright that you keep on asserting.

Greg


