Geoff Thurman on 01/07/05 11:50, wrote:
But isn't he right, at the end of the day, to be concerned about software patents? Are the large companies not going to use the legislation in the same way McDonalds used the libel law? Personally I find the way politics is run these days far more obscene than one or two swear words, as well. And I would have thought this list was exactly the right place for a discussion of these issues. Why is it not?
Yes Guillaume is right to be worried, but he is not right to direct his energy into ranting at his fellow techies like some bible-bashing zealot.
If he goes here, he will see what I meant. I have emailed their webmaster already.
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