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

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

Jean-Michel POURE wrote:
> 
> Think law: think Simple: think Democracy: think Civil Law: think Social
> Consensus: think Common Wealth.
> 
> Don't think: written laws always apply, large companies rule the world, 
> Civil
> Law is under commercial law, we must discuss every single word of a law,
> etc...
> 
> Without democrats, we cannot build a democracy.
> As John-Paul II said "Be courageous".


As organizers have said for many years:

Some people are in the law for the law; others are in it for the people.

Another relevant line:

Nobody gives you freedom; you have to take it.


Seth Johnson


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