[ILUG] Fwd: Mary Harney's Answer on Software Patents

Justin Mason jm at jmason.org
Fri May 28 21:37:46 IST 2004


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John Gay writes:
> Obviously too many of the letters and E-Maila are comming across as fanatical 
> rather than level-headed explainations of the dangers software patents pose 
> to Irelands, and Europes software industry.

...or it's easy to paint any opposition as "LIE-NOX fanatics", in the same
way as Minister Martin Cullen called ICTE "linked to the
anti-globalisation movement".

"Pay no attention to the reds under the bed", in other words...

- --j.
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