Gus wrote, in a much longer and well thought out post,
>Quick response to Steve -
>An issue can be legal as well as moral. Think slavery, civil rights,
>gay marriage, etc. I am focusing only on the moral. Corporate money
>pretty much dominates the legal these days anyway.
Agreed. I hope you weren't making the point that lawyers and judges were
incapable of moral as well as legal decisions? I fully recognize that
sometimes the moral decision is illegal and that sometimes a legal decision
is immoral, or amoral, or at least unethical. My only point was that I don't
see an ethical issue in patents, only a legal issue. Now the *application*
of patented material can be moral, ethical, but not, IMHO, the patenting
process itself.
Steven
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