Re: Gates Patents Flipping a Light Switch

[Lee Hollaar]

In article <c860ib$jo0$1@blue.rahul.net> c.c.eiftj@GatesXPate.usenet.us.com 
(Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>hollaar@faith.cs.utah.edu (Lee Hollaar) writes:
>
>>He didn't have to bring up some phantom "criminalising" to make his
>>point ...
>
>As I recall, only a few years ago, in a similar argument on Usenet,
>somebody complained about how reverse engineering was being
>criminalized, and everybody jumped on him to correct him that it wasn't
>a crime.
>
>Yet.

Still.

If somebody can't make a point without resorting to bogus scare
arguments, his point isn't worth much.