Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software

[Krzysztof Sobolewski <critto@poczta.wp.pl>]

On Wednesday 23 January 2002 03:19, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >No honest people are advocating software patents.
>
> Since I don't have the Hartmut dictionary of English, I am not sure
> what you mean.  By "honest people"
> do you mean people that totally agree with Hartmut?  All hail Hartmut
> arbiter of honesty.
>
> Greg Aharonian

Greg,
now you're becoming simply impolite. And thus, I don't feel like being 
obliged to be polite with you. either.

So, I will repeat you what I've written to this forum some time ago:

HANDS OFF EUROPE.

Maybe in America, suing somebody is a normal way of life, and a lawyer is 
needed for every its domain, in every aspect and in every moment. Maybe 46% 
of Americans would die without one lawsuit per week, maybe all the higher 
emotions, feelings and normal human relationships sadly disappeared in this 
beautiful country, and have been replaced by the infinite greed and the 
mother of all tyrannies, that is, the love of power. If it's so, it's really 
sad then, that the so-called 'land of the free' now suffers under a regime 
near to totalitarian, with PARASITE-like bands of lawyers.

But in Europe, we ARE NOT SO. We have different kind of dealing between 
people. Now, when we suffered under state-operated monopolies, there's a 
drive towards privatisation, deregulation and open, free markets. Patents are 
contradiction, the anti-thesis of the free, laissez-faire market. Oh, you may 
call Europe "socialist", but it's becoming lesser and lesser socialist, 
believe me.

Few years will pass, and you (and many other people, too) will see the growth 
of the European Consciousness -- the feeling of being European, and treating 
Europe as our homeland (as some good people in USA do with America). And 
then, WE will declare our independence, as the "equal station among the 
Earth's powers'. Now, we are culturally independent, and more and more 
Euro-conscious. And we don't want the American lawyers messing with our legal 
system, be it patent system, penal system (ie. we don't accept capital 
punishment), and some other systems so popular in US. It is our INTERNAL 
AFFAIR, what we do with patent system, not yours, Greg. 

Sure, you have the right to speak yourself out here. Everybody has. But STOP 
your lobbying attempts in Europe, or we will start similiar ones in America.

There are many domains that are waiting for patenting, Greg. For example, the 
one that has been "patented" (in the way it required the official permission) 
-- sex, that is. The world f..k really meant "free under certificate of 
king", where "free" stood for 'allowed to', 'permitted', while 'king' was the 
King of England, who required people to obtain  such permission before they 
procreate. More people make sex than write computer programs -- so, what are 
you waiting for ???

Or, be it, patent interracial marriages. There was a big outrage against them 
in America in last decades, so the demand for such 'services' might be high, 
too.

Or, finally, patent music and literature. It's also an 'industry', music 
especially. Or, is it too monopolised to be stiffled to death by patenting, 
what do you think, Greg?

Anything you do, DO IT in USA, *NOT* in Europe. Once we've denounced and 
abolished slavery (esp. the 'negro slavery'), while many Americans have 
"stood up" for this "right" and demanded its "protection", and it lasted till 
the War Between The States (which I don't want to speak of). We've done it 
peacefully, without demolishing a half of a country first, as the Northern 
bandit generals did with the South. We really don't want to mess with your, 
American internal affairs, Greg. Y'all in USA may have the sodomy laws, 
software patents, war on drugs, DMCA and other stupid things. But we, in 
Europe, DO NOT want to have them. As Thomas Jefferson said "peace and 
friendship with every nation, entangling alliances with NONE". 

Y'alls in Liberty,
 
   Krzysztof (Christopher) "Critto" Sobolewski
   critto@wp.pl, http://www.libertaryzm.prv.pl