From: Toto <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 06:57:23 -0800 (PST)
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: RSA challenge: is it legal to try?
Message-ID: <199701211457.GAA06835@toad.com>
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jim bell wrote:
 
> In short, I think it's absolutely foolish to believe that any sort of
> workable system could ever have been arranged to patent software, even if
> all of the issues above had been addressed fairly.  And the reason I asked
> for an "innocent" explanation is to give people the benefit of the doubt so
> that they could show that the system was working.  It isn't, and you know it.

  Sure the 'system' is working. Software patents were begun as a means
for
the government to exert control over the direction of software
development.
  It's the same thing as crypto-export regulations. They established a
dick-licking order for those who want to whore their way to riches 
under government rule. So now the quickest way to export your product
is to name it 'Crypto Light'.

Toto