RE: Patent junk was Re: open source.

> From: Leif Svalgaard [mailto:leif@leif.org]
>
> 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.

Maybe best to drop it altogether.