Re: RSA patents in EP limelight

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:01:53 +0200
[email protected] wrote:

>  Some great minds of our time have expressed their detailed opinion on these
>  issues, see for example:
> 
>         http://www-db.stanford.edu/~ullman/pub/focs00.html

Rather ambivalent about software patentability and he even applauds the RSA
patent. I don't think he really understands what he is saying and if he does,
that is even worse. Knuth himself was much clearer in his letter to the PTO:

http://lpf.ai.mit.edu/Patents/knuth-to-pto.txt

as I'm sure you knew already. I can think of several eminent mathematicians and
scientists who have shown a willingness to make public their views on 'political
matters' before and who I am sure would see more clearly the evil of
software patents than Ullman has.