It doesn't anger me. It strikes me as logically vapid. Way 1: The "duh" conclusion. Yes, software patent law is not completely broken, if we assume "completely broken" to mean: completely shuts down the entire innovation economy, turning the land into a barren wasteland where nary an original thought is to be found. This is true. But I fail to see how that kind of far-reaching conclusion is useful. There's absolutely nobody who was trying to state the opposite of that.
Way 2: This line of thought is actually meant to be an argument. I must then assume it implies a much milder definition of "completely broken" - you intended to say something along the lines of "The US is actually producing lots of innovation in software, therefore patent law cannot be stifling innovation". This is a logical fallacy. Something I've been trying to tell you for a while now. I get somewhat irked if someone routinely repeats a logical fallacy and then tries to hide it by dressing it up (look up the fallacy "moving the goalposts"), even if I pointed it out a number of times. Possibly you meant it in some other way. In that case, I'd love to hear it. So far either you're bad at communicating your thoughts, or I suck at interpreting what you've said. On Sep 14, 2:06 am, Cédric Beust ♔ <ced...@beust.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Reinier Zwitserloot > <reini...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > No, but I fail to see how this is relevant to my point: there is a lot of > > > software innovation happening in the US, so the software patent law > > cannot > > > be completely broken. > > You have a way to twist words around that's quite puzzling, here is the > point that was in the very email you quoted: > > > There is a lot of > > software innovation happening in the US, so the software patent law cannot > > be completely broken. > > This looks like a pretty reasonable claim, I don't understand why it angers > you so much. > > -- > Cédric -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
