On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 11:01:38PM -0400,
David H. Lynch Jr. <dhlii(_at_)comcast(_dot_)net> wrote
a message of 89 lines which said:
Regardless of whether software should be patentable (or
business methods, or ...) and regardless of the fact that trivial
"improvements" should not be patentable no matter what. We live in a
world where they are.
"A world"? You mistake the United States of America for the World. In
Europe, software patents are currently illegal. (And frivolous/trivial
patents like the Microsoft patent we talk about are a good reason why
it should stay that way.)
See http://swpat.ffii.org/ for details.