[Patents] more inflammatory speeches from Greg

[srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

>Sounds like an argumnet in _favor_ of successive innovation to me.

Sure, why not.  Successive innovation is increasingly the rule of
all fields of patentable technology (especially digital hardware),
yet one more reason to make software as equally patentable as
every other technology.  There is nothing holy about software - it
is yet another technology of process and method that falls under
the patent law, not the copyright laws which explicitly prohibit
copyright for process and method.

Greg Aharonian