REH replied: > I was speaking of the materialist who considers all things in > a very concrete manner as property while the thinker is condemned to the > purgatory of insubstantiality. I happen to believe that both hardware > and software is property and should be protected.
I distinguish between hardware and software patents not because I'm a "fundamentalist materialist" (I'm not at all), but because I know what I'm talking about: Software patents would cause a lot of problems that hardware patents don't cause (see e.g. http://www.noepatents.org ). Chris
