will ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > does this mean the patentistas will give up without a fight? no. do i > care? yes, outrageous abuses abound. but rather than gnash my teeth i > quietly tend my code garden because at a fundamental level i am > voting > by my actions for the freedom to think for myself. and i am not alone > in this struggle.
Sure there is little hope for patent reform in the US and thus US citizens might as well roll over and read a good book, but many of us live in countries in which the patent system is still a little bit fairer than the totally reprobate US system, and thus it is important that we do make a fuss and publicly gnash our teeth in an atempt to prevent the US system being shoved down our and everyone else's throats. The real loser, as Monbiot points out, are people in teh Two-Thirds World, where in exchange for some loans from the IMF, they are signing up to totally inequitable intellectual property regimes. Tim C
