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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 _________________________________________________________________ One-click access to Hotmail from any Web page – download MSN Toolbar now! http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200413ave/direct/01/