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Re: Disappointed, yet..not surprised (was Re: Disap pointed)

2004-09-23 18:29:30
Meng Weng Wong wrote:

On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 08:47:07PM -0400, Chuck Mead wrote:
| I would be very happy to help or undertake to create an edited, corrected
| version of this which all could use to brief their own political leaders.
| | I will have some time for this on saturday and would be glad to post a
| refined version for review...
|
sounds good, but what exactly is the call to action?  what
do you want the representatives to do?


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To me, the call to action is a moratorium on patenting software. This action by Microsoft just clearly brings to the forefront the need to enact this at least for a period of time so that the whole issue can be sorted out. Do we all want to have a lawyer to read our latest html page to insure we haven't created something illegal? Heck, we don't have enough legal staff on this list to really know if the M$ application really means anything.

What if the image tag had not been created... could the creator of the image tag in html then patent it?

I think we have a great launching point with a good cause to show the need to stop these patents, at least for some period of time.

Has anybody ever wondered how many lawyers M$ has versus developers? I bet there are more lawyers.

John Hinton


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