Z:gnu-www-ja-stallman-mec-india--be7e81-Doing this at the stage of gra/en

Doing this at the stage of granting patents is not quite as easy as you might think. Now, I have been talking about software patents but strictly speaking you can't classify patents into hardware patents and software patents, because one patent might cover both hardware and software. So in fact my definition of a software patent is: a patent that can restrict software development.