Re: [Patents] Software Patents: The Patent Trap

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

THE PATENT BUSTER HOAX unveiled

Greg does not exist.  Greg is a robot, like HAL, but less advanced
(the technology is not there yet).

Proof: Greg does not pass the Turing test ... at a very low threshold
of discourse complexity it stops understanding and starts repeating
itself (like HAL with a few processing banks removed, see the movie
2001).

   But it is still amusing to find new twists to make it occasionally
create a new sentence.

   BTW, does anyone know who built Greg, and programmed it ?

Bernard

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:51:31PM +0100, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> > <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.
> 
> -- 
> Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-12789608
> Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation             
> http://swpat.ffii.org/
> 100,000 signatures against software patents      http://www.noepatents.org/
> 

-- 
         Non aux Brevets Logiciels  -  No to Software Patents
           SIGNEZ    http://petition.eurolinux.org/    SIGN

Bernard.Lang@inria.fr             ,_  /\o    \o/    Tel  +33 1 3963 5644
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Fax  +33 1 3963 5469
            INRIA / B.P. 105 / 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX / France
         Je n'exprime que mon opinion - I express only my opinion
                 CAGED BEHIND WINDOWS or FREE WITH LINUX