“[T]hey [the EPO] can’t distinguish between hardware and software so the patents get issued anyway”.”

–Marshall Phelps, Microsoft

Also see:

In Huge Shift, Court Ruling Effectively Denies Software-Only Patent Rights
http://gizmodo.com/5072858/in-huge-shift-court-ruling-effectively-denies-software+only-patent-rights

“The big question is what effect, if any, this decision will have on the current referral of a “point of law” concerning software patents by the President of the European Patent Office (EPO) to the EPO “Enlarged Board of Appeal”, something I wrote about earlier this week. It would be ironic if, at a time when the US courts begin to move away from patenting software “as such”, the EPO started allowing precisely that through a relaxation of its own rules”

http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=1452

See the comment titled “Depressing” posted on Nov 3rd here http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20081030150903555#comments

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1015749&cid=25604523

Aside from trying to pretend that people agree with what you say, you posted on that article with four different accounts. Can you explain why you do that? Having conversations with yourself goes against your argument that you use multiple accounts simply to get around the posting limit imposed by your negative moderation by the Slashdot community.

Would you like to comment on any of the threads and posts linked to from this page?

http://slashdot.org/~SockDisclosure/journal/214377

I’m sure that the author of that journal would welcome corrections and clarifications.

Would you also like to comment on why you multi-post anonymously on articles that criticize BN?

Note: writer of this comment adds absolutely nothing but stalking and personal attacks against readers, as documented here.