Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:05:20 -0400
> Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > They introduced the phrase "as such" because they wanted to say that
> > software was different and could not be covered by patents.
> >
> > But of course law doesn't mean anything, so I must be wrong!  I'm *so*
> > *very* sorry to have taken up your time with such an obviously
> > meaningless point.
> 
> tssk tssk
> 
> If law was clear, we would know about it already...
> 
> Welcome to a brave new world, Seth!


We would already know if the law was meaningless.

Welcome to your own private Idaho, Jean-Baptiste.

:-)

Seth


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