URL for good essay on the badness of software patents

Tim Bates (tbates@karri.bhs.mq.edu.au)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 17:51:44 +1100

check out
<http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/against-software-patents.html>

for a cogent set of reasons and examples of the disadvantages of allowing patents on software.

cheers,
tim