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- From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>
- To: fairuse-discuss@mrbrklyn.com
- Cc: Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>, patents@aful.org, C-FIT_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org, C-FIT_Release_Community@RealMeasures.dyndns.org
- Subject: Re: [fairuse-discuss] Re: [Patents] Software Patents: The Patent Trap
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:08:58 -0500
- Organization: Real Measures
Gregory Aharonian wrote:
>
> >such a callous disregard for people's freedoms to exercise
> >logic freely by means of the use of their logic devices.
>
> Oh so noble, and or so pointless. Don't electrical, chemical, biotech,
> mechanical, and other engineers have freedom's too? Don't they exercise
> logic in their inventions? Yes and Yes. So why aren't you demanding
> that there be no patents in these fields of engineering as well?
> Software is just another field of engineering
Like I said, such a callous disregard for people's freedoms
to exercise logic freely by means of the use of their logic
devices!
> - nothing noble about it,
> and no reason its activities are any different than any other field of
> engineering. So where are your calls to end patents in all fields of
> engineering, not just software, so that all engineers have the freedom
> to exercise logic freely???????
Like I said, such a callous disregard for people's freedoms
to exercise logic freely by means of the use of their logic
devices!
>
> Have the guts to publicly argue what you really believe - the end of the
> entire patent system.
You *do* go on . . .
Seth Johnson
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