Re: [fsl-discuss] Re: [Patents] The politics of software over-protection -- moving forward..

[Roland Orre <orre@nada.kth.se>]

On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 06:37, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Roland Orre wrote:
> 
>     As I have understood, rms (nowadays) has a similar view as
>     Greg that obvious software ideas should not be patentable, but I
>     consider no software to be patentable.
> 
> I am against software patents completely; that has been my position
> since around 1990.  Where did you come across a statement that my
> views are like Aharonian's?  Maybe I should write to correct the
> statement.

Dear rms, it seems as I've done a terrible mistake and severly
misunderstood you at some point. I'm very sorry for this, but
also glad that I got my view corrected.

I couldn't remember from where I was inspired to get that view but
I've gone through your pages about patents that I could find
and they are perfectly consistent and against software patents.

It is possible that I was affected by the earlier discussions about
"obvious" software patents some years ago, and it's possible that
there were some interview where I may have misunderstood your answer
but I can't recall which interview.

If I find a statement which can be misunderstood I'll inform you.

        Best regards
        Roland