Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--5cf2db-So what I propose to the Unite/en

So what I propose to the United States is to change the criteria for applying patents, to say that purely software systems running on general purpose computing hardware are immune from patents. They by definition cannot infringe a patent. And this way the patents can still be granted exactly the way they are now, and they can still, in a formal sense, cover both hardware implementations and software implementations as they do now. But software will be safe.