Re: Strawmen and Urban Legends

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

Dom, 2006-12-17 às 10:20 -0500, rjack escreveu:
> The computer “software patent” is

not recognised in almost any law, so they invent terms like "computer
implemented invention" or try to hide the fact that it's a computer
program by calling it things like "apparatus", etc...

>  a true urban legend . . .

Not true, since the European Patent Office admitted around some 30.000
of them a few years back (2002?).

>  created to 
> promote an agenda for the abolishment of intellectual property.

I didn't know you belonged to the "conspiracy theory nuts" field.

Rui

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+ 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...?

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