By the way, I just saw this story hit Slashdot: http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/19/1518200/software-patents-good-for-open-source
Good discussion there (out of a pretty lousy summary). I noticed that Ben Sturmfels commented too. Best comment was this<http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2861507&cid=40054149> : It is as if someone is trying to create the impression there is an ongoing > 'debate' about about the pros and cons of software patents. There is no > debate. Software patents are harmful nonsense. and this is the general > consensus amoung [sic] people who write software (supposedly the people > that these patents 'protect'). I'm sure you could scrape up some guy who > swears blind that smoking cured his sinus problems but that doesn't mean an > article 'Smoking - good for your health?' should hit the front page. > _______________________________________________ Free-software-melb mailing list Free-software-melb@lists.softwarefreedom.com.au http://lists.softwarefreedom.com.au/mailman/listinfo/free-software-melb
