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Re: Boycott on Unisys still effective

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From: nickm
Date: Mon, 09 Jan 1995 02:16
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How the fuck does a SOFTWARE ALGORITHM get patented! No matter what kind
of legal tissue paper Unisys' lawyers wrap this technology in (they
describe it as a piece of hardware) - it's a software algorithm, i.e.
and IDEA - which is NOT SUPPOSED TO BE PATENTABLE!

Just because the patent office continues to make the same mistakes
every time a patent is reviewed doesn't mean that a patent is valid.

WAKE UP, PATENT OFFICE. You're ruining the whole software business, which
is one of the US's big strengths.

The US Patent Office is staffed by a bunch of losers who tend to believe
whatever their big 'customers', like Unisys, throw at them. So someone
develops a mathematical idea or software article, fully intending for
it to be realized as software, and files a patent pretending it can be
built as a new gadget, like it's a new grain harvester or something.
The patent office buys this line and issues an all-encompassing patent
on an IDEA.

This whole software patent shit is getting way out of hand.

E-MAIL these losers and tell them that you're not going to allow them
to hamstring the vibrant, exciting US software industry.
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