Re: The patent process [Was Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending]

[Stefan Monnier]

> That is -- you can vote for Congressment who may be anti-farming subsidies,
> but you can't personally interfere with the awarding of subsidies to
> Con-Agra.  You have to fight the process in toto -- the whole idea of
> Farming subsidies ( or Patents ).

But that sucks too.  It suffers from the same problem: the process is
closed so you only get to react/complain/pressure after the fact.

I think the idea of opening up the review process to external comments is
the way to go for patents, subsidies, ...


        Stefan