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In <4669@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) writes:

>a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin) writes:

>>In <4628@cluster.cs.su.oz.au> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes:

>>>    The US also will insist that other countries change their laws to deter
>>>large corporations from attempting to block the issuance of patents to other
>>>parties through the use of orchestrated challenges.

>>Isn't that what LPF is trying to do on Usenet in regard some "software" patents?

>The LPF is doing no such thing.  Please [explain why you
>consider this to be the case and the facts upon which you rely]

There was a message, purporting to be from a representative of the LPF,
which asked people to send existing "patentable" software to them for
inclusion in a "library" of existing art, in order to provide a basis to
challenge the patents when later applied for by non-LPF-supporters.  (I've
lost the message ID; this is my recollection as to the content of the
message, etc., etc.).  If my recollection is correct, then what is the
difference between what was suggested and what you say is illegal?

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