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Re: The patent process [Was Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending]


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: The patent process [Was Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending]
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 14:52:05 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

> That is -- you can vote for Congressment who may be anti-farming subsidies,
> but you can't personally interfere with the awarding of subsidies to
> Con-Agra.  You have to fight the process in toto -- the whole idea of
> Farming subsidies ( or Patents ).

But that sucks too.  It suffers from the same problem: the process is
closed so you only get to react/complain/pressure after the fact.

I think the idea of opening up the review process to external comments is
the way to go for patents, subsidies, ...


        Stefan

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