Re: [Fsfe-uk] Arlene McCarty on software patents

[MJ Ray]

Ramanan Selvaratnam <address@hidden> wrote:
>>Indeed. I found it particularly galling that she appears to be playing the
>>man rather than the ball 
> ..and her website leads one to believe that she is a member of the 
> Cooperative party !

Don't be too surprised: the cooperative movement generally still haven't
"got it" yet either and they're meant to be based on ideals of fairness...

[...]
> Are these 'small fry' SME's hoping to 'licence out  inventiveness' and 
> create jobs in the far-east and not address the 'job losses' locally?

Are you thinking of a certain well-known home cleaning device patent?
That's probably not a bad example to use.

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