Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--5e5f39-=3Cb=3EA=3C/b=3E: Right, IBM favors so/en

A: Right, IBM favors software patents. I had with trouble one, I couldn't hear all the words in your sentence. I don't know whether there was a &lsquo;not&rsquo; in it. I couldn't tell, there are two diametrically opposite meanings for what you just said, so what you can do is make sure that the situation is clear. IBM favors software patents, IBM thinks it stands to gain a lot from software patents. So what it stands to gain is that the IBM and the other very big companies would basically control software development, because it will be very hard to do independent software development.