Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--21799b-So that is a feasible approach/en

So that is a feasible approach and that's what people are working towards in Europe. However, that is not going to be any use in the United States because the United States already has tens of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands of software patents. Any change in the criteria for issuing patents does not help at all with the patents that already exist.