On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Ralph Goers <[email protected]> wrote:
> So far in this lengthy shred, despite claims that facts justify patents,
> all I've seen is facts that show how non-beneficial software patents
> actually are (which have been waved off as not relevant) but no facts that
> justify them - just assertions purported to be facts.
Thanks, Ralph, I was getting a bit desperate.
I pointed out the frequent "hand wavy" aspect of the anti-patent rhetoric at
the very beginning of this thread, and sure enough, what followed was filled
with assertions without much data to back it up (in Reinier's message alone:
"patents are a drag", "they amount to thought crime", etc...). I even tried
to steer the debate with concrete questions ("When was last time you heard
about an obscene amount of money awarded to a ridiculous patent?") but these
were promptly ignored.
And Reinier, Ralph is right about your quoting: for some reason, no parts of
the message you are responding to ever appear in your messages, so we can
never tell who you're responding to, much less what to.
--
Cédric
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