Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Re: abolishing software patents? (got IP game?)

Author:Kabir X
Posted:9/22/2000; 2:56:39 PM
Topic:got IP game?
Msg #:21654 (In response to 21646)
Prev/Next:21653 / 21655

[...] when a person appears to wear a mask that doesn't fit, it gets harder to suspend disbelief enough to keep the story going.

The ideas presented stand, or fall, on their own. They do not need a persona to prop them up.

(What needs a persona is, of course, diversion from a discussion of ideas to one of motives, and character, of the participants: "nuisances like Marshmen and importunate strangers".)

[Let me know when your faith in your extreme position is sufficiently restored for us to continue the discussion of the issues involved.]

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