Re: [Patents] Software Patents: The Patent Trap

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>]

> <I really hope to have a true discussion here between thinking,
> even with different opinions, people>

If you look at the

        http://www.aful.org/pipermail/patents/

archive, you will find about 50 rounds of very earnest attempts at
discussion with Greg that were about just as futile as discussion with the
EC patent lawmakers.  Good arguments are ignored, the same stuff is always
repeated.  Words are used as a weapon rather than as a tool of reasoning.

If you have new points to make, they are probably wasted in this thread.

If you still don't want to give up, the sane thing to do would be to great
a "Software Patents and Co-Design Cosmology FAQ" from the existing
dialogues with Greg.  It would be very warmly welcome at

        http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/gasnu/aharonian/

and we could point to it each time Greg starts over again.

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