On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, PCastro wrote: > A strong lobby to make "software" a "(patented) consumer > product" - like hardware assets are. > > Transforming the real nature of software... > > Not just a new kind of documented information > but in a "real thing" in a "real product"... thus all > the legal juris-legis stuff (warranties, trademarks, > patents, etc,etc) would apply. (they are doing this) > (IMHO this is nastily wrong). If they redefine "software", can't we find ourselves a new name for what we are used to call "software"? -- Roberto Jung Drebes <drebes@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Porto Alegre, RS - Brasil http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/~drebes/