Re: [Patents] Hardware N Software

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

> >But STOP your lobbying attempts in Europe, or we will start similar ones
> >in America.
>
> Grow up.  I as an American can apply for a European patent.  That makes
> European patent policy of interest to me, and something that I have a
> right to try and influence.  I probably won't succeed, but talk about
> denying me the freedom to try and influence such policies, and I will
> accuse you of massive hypocrisy.  And please, feel free to do the same in
> America.  Many in the American patent world will love to read your
> very entertaining writings.  In fact, I might even send out your most
> recent posting over my newsletter, it is so hilarious.

If you post Critto's writing, please attribute it to Critto only.  This
writing does not represent anyone in Eurolinux.

Eurolinux may indeed take the liberty to start a worldwide lobbying
campaign, regardless of whether you stop yours or not.

To Critto, I'd suggest you create a collection of hilarious sayings from
Greg which we can organise into a nice web page.  I'm just preparing pages
about certain "faces of the patent debate" under

        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/

I'm thinking of collections such as

        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/aharonian/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/riley/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/straus/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/nack/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/betten/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/kober/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/hart/
        http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/lijda/mogg/

Of course everything there has to be very objective and polite, no smear
campaigns, just a further improvement of our documentation.  But many of
the quotations from Greg are likely to make people laugh anyway.

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