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Re: Patent junk was Re: open source.

From: Hall, Philip <phall@spss.com>
> Chris wrote:
> > My belief is that nobody, or perhaps a very few somebodies, enters
> > into a research project or works to build a working model of a
> > technology for the purpose of filing a patent to stop that technology
> > from being used.

Phil, Chris is using "The Argument From Personal Astonishment"
This is sometimes known as the Argument From Complexity, or the
Argument From Ignorance, or the Argument From Incredulity.

It has the form:
I don't understand (or I never heard) how this could happen.
Therefore it couldn't have.

Maybe it is best to move the discussion to the new patents-junk-list.
We are way off topic.

Leif

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