Re: [Patents] Software Patents: The Patent Trap

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

look ... he is paid to do that

a man has a right to his livelihood


On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 05:14:15PM +0100, Mattias Lundström wrote:
> Greg
> 
> Since all your messages contain the same arguments, why don't you
> just leave the mails empty so that the rest of us don't have to
> reread them?
> Or, better yet, don't submit them at all?
> 
> -- Mattias
> 
> PS. If, by some miracle, you are interested in actually responding
>   to the normal counter-arguments, do feel free to do so.
> 
> Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >>Bullshit ... and you know it
> >>
> > 
> > Yes, you are right.  It is bullshit to view software as anything but
> > another field of engineering, and thus a field of engineering that has
> > to grow up and learn to deal with the problems and benefits of patents.
> > 
> > What is real BS is your refusal to admit that you are really against
> > all forms of patents, since all of your arguments against software
> > patents apply equally well to software's sister fields of engineering.
> > 
> > Grge
> > 
> > 
> 
> 

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