Re: [Patents] Halloween X

[Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>]

Russell concludes with:
>Eithor way, whether we focus on the social science or economic public
>policy aspects, information processes should not be patentable.

I assume you mean that "information processes when expressed in software
should not be patentable, but information processes when expressed in
hardware should be patentable"?

and when you say that "Software is not technology, but technical knowledge,
a service or policy", you really mean that "Software is not technology,
but technical knowledge, a service or policy, unless the software is a
description of hardware (VHDL), then the software is technology."

Greg Aharonian