jim bell wrote:
It also ignores the strong likelihood that the reason for the Patent-Office policy change (done, apparently, without benefit of a corresponding law change) was because with public-key/RSA there was finally an example of software the government wished to deny to the average citizen, and the only mechanism (short of secrecy, which was broken) to do so was to patent it.
I'm still waiting for an "innocent" explanation for the US patent office beginning to issue software patents. I don't think there is one.
Jim, It is reasurring to know that 'reason' and 'paranoia' can peacefully co-exist in the mind. Most people seem to veiw it as an either/or situation. Toto "They are refusing to conspire against me, in order to make my paranoia look irrational."