On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 21:33 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > > and joining NoSoftwarePatents.com then I'd be willing to cut them some > > slack. > > Patents aren't bad. Patents on _common_ideas_ are bad. What we need to > do is lobby for a massive reduction in patents, and 10x the scrutiny, > instead of this "organ grinder" system we have. He's not talking about patents in general but software patents. All software patents are bad, and virtually all software patents are patents on _common_ideas_ Feel free to be the first to draw the line in the sand from whereupon it's a common idea or not. Nobody was ever able to clearly define that, so what you say is very nice in principle, but unfeasible in practice. But this is getting more and more off-topic. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
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