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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: Software Patents: The Patent Trap
- Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:14:46 -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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