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If you read this blog, I have a favor to ask. Please take a look at my "Evolving A Benign Religion" essay and if you agree with it, link to it, or write your own essay on the same subject and make it available online. I honestly think it represents a concept whose time has come, and which needs attention. If my essay -- or yours -- starts to get some links, we can enable a mailing list so people who are interested can discuss it. 1:53:36 PM 
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I got an email yesterday from Justin Mason in which he says: Gary, that ACM story gets it all wrong. The McCarthy proposal is horrific -- it brings Europe's patent system in line with, possibly even worse than, the US system w.r.t. software patents.Personally I'm in favor of software patents as a matter of principle. It's not the principle of software patents that's a mess, it's the practice. They should be much shorter in duration than other patents, and somehow, examiners must be made to understand that they have the obligation and mandate to reject the obvious inventions which are responsible for virtually all patent abuse. And they need better tools for finding prior art, including true immersion in their subject areas. Software patent applications should be examined by real software developers who know their craft and know the background. It should be a job that is so well-paying and with enough status that a significant number of the top 1% of developers would want to do it.
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