On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:39:18PM +0100, Bob Ham wrote: (cut) >And by the by, what on earth is going on with this? What's going on to >do something about this situation? It seems many people are aware of >the USPTO's idiocy, yet they are still allowed to carry on being >idiots. Why are people letting them?
Cause they are even more ignorant ? :( That's why besides codes the Free Software Movement (and Open Source, so I'm politically correct :) needs good advocates who can explain the perils of such idiocy. I like the idea of a group of lawyers in Germany who are specialised in the GPL and related concepts, cause we need some empowerment in that department too. Only empowerment in the coding department will lead us into the abyss IMHO. vincent
