Re: Patents to be Auctioned

On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 20:21 +1100, Dudley Mills wrote:
> Software is “just” another (patentable) technology.

I wouldn't reply more to avoid cluttering the list (that is not
patents@...) but that's where you're completely wrong for several
reasons and US and Japan seems to be the only places in the world which
this idea is understood as "right".

The world is *much* bigger than the US... Wikipedia is a good start...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent

About my early sent email, pressed the wrong button, sorry. ;) But I had
nothing to add anyway.

cheers,
--renato