[SC.LUG] America

[Matthew Tolley]

I can see much more easily why the patents system might need radical
overhaul, as opposed to abolition - this line of thinking is making sense to
me now.

No I don't have Aspergers! I told you, I make sure I get plenty of Chromium,
Vanadium and Lithium in my diet. Those of you guys who are growing your own
food, you need to introduce these minerals to the soil or they won't be in
the food you're growing. VERY IMPORTANT. It's a sad reflection on the state
of our soils today, but farmers have to feed cows with calcium-enriched feed
or there won't be any calcium in their milk. If they just ate grass there
wouldn't be enough calcium to grow baby calves because of what mankind has
done to the soil.

So GET THOSE MINERALS!!


Matthew





-----Original Message-----
From: sc-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:sc-admin@mailman.lug.org.uk]On
Behalf Of Ian Molton
Sent: 20 August 2003 16:42
To: sc@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [SC.LUG] America


On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:36:59 +0100
"Matthew Tolley" <matthew@matthewtolley.com> wrote:

>
> Historically, people patent something, THEN make money from their
> invention

Yes, thats whats SUPPOSED to happen. and amongst the small companies it
does.

but the large companies use huge 'libraries' of just-barely-valid (or
even utterly bogus) patents to bludgeon other smaller concerns that may
be a threat.

no one is saying the original idea of patents is bad, or that the
current systems is sometimes used correctly.

what is being said is that the *current* system is horribly flawed and
allows large concerns to squish smaller ones.

You seem to be taking this very literally. You dont have aspergers
syndrome too do you?

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