Re: [ilugd] patents considered harmful

2004-07-21 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] > > Moreover, you cannot patent software. You can patent only ideas. wan't it the other way around? i agree about the dangers of patents. the most controversial application of patenting yet is in medicine and healthcare. while beyond the domain of us software people, the least those inter

[ilugd] patents considered harmful

2004-07-20 Thread Raj Shekhar
Hello all In the Sunday meet, there were some students present who were working on some health care software and wanted to patent it. I would like to point out to them the essay "The Danger of Software Patents" by Richard Stallman. (http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/danger-of-software-patents.txt)