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In article <MONTNARO.91Oct8122759@spyder.crd.ge.com>
montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes: 


   In article <ROCKWELL.91Oct7204450@socrates.umd.edu>
   rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell) writes: 

      The difference between patents and copyrights is that patents
      are expensive to obtain.  A direct mapping of GNU or FSF onto
      patents would take a lot of dollars.  

   It may take a lot of money to successfully get a patent, however,
   it might not take much money to write a patent application that is
   sufficiently complete/complex/worthy that it can't be trivially
   rejected by the USPTO. If that proves true, how about a little
   civil disobedience? Flood the USPTO with tons of patent
   applications, effectively rendering the system useless.     

The problem you overlook in your zeal is that this is a large
institution. What you are doing is paying money for a result. The
ammount that they charge for a patent will cover their expenditures,
after your tax dollar. This means that you will merely be making it
easier for them to hire new workers & update their processing.