____/ Mark Kent on Friday 20 July 2007 07:59 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 19 July 2007 14:50 : \____
>>
>>> William Poaster <wp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> It was on, or about, Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:51:54 -0700, that as I was
>>>> halfway through a large jam doughnut, NoStop wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hadron wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:25:12 +0000, Tim Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 2007-07-18, alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I enjoy the articles! Anyone who doesn't want to read your news
>>>>>>>>> posts can filter by the subject keyword of "[News]".
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In other words, it's OK to post things that are off-topic (as are
>>>>>>>> many of his posts), as long as it is easy for people to filter them?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> His posts are on-topic. Just because this is an advocacy group doesn't
>>>>>>> mean we don't want to read about the competition. Perhaps you should
>>>>>>> just leave.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Perhaps you should read the charter.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> And who is "we"? Less than about 2% of posters here read his crap as is
>>>>>> evident from the few shills who take it in turn bumping his plagiarised
>>>>>> link posts.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do you know what we read? Personally, I find his posts a very
>>>>> convenient way to quickly get access to all sorts of articles I find
>>>>> interesting and read. The fact that he takes the time to put a synopsis
>>>>> of the content before each link is very helpful in this regards. I'm
>>>>> glad he's doing it. If he didn't, COLA would mostly be just bullshit
>>>>> arguments about whose got a bigger penis than the other.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And *again*, WTF is a "plagiarised link"? Or maybe Quack doesn't know
>>>> WTF he's babbling about, as usual.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It's an absurd statement, certainly straight out of the Microsoft
>>> Marketing dictionary, along with "the open source people have a
>>> monopoly" and similar nonsense.
>>>
>>> Links are there for linking to. That's why they're there. Mr Quark, on
>>> the other hand, is a consistent off-topic, anti-charter poster who
>>> should not be here.
>>
>> I think that the lobbyists created a system that made the linked list a
>> patentable idea. That's what Doug showed us some months ago.
>>
>
> It would appear that the US is about to move away from this ridiculous
> position. Oddly, if left in place, I think it could end up doing far
> more damage than good to US/Canadian/Mexican/Australian companies whilst
> leaving the rest of the world in very good shape indeed, so probably
> from a US perspective it's very urgent to get this fixed.
The patent disease will be harder to propagate. This intellectual 'disease'
will dissipate along with the declining influence of America, which sadly
enough, is something that won't end before a presidenetial election and some
reforms.
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