Prior art won't solve the software patent problem (NewsForge)

Posted Sep 18, 2006 17:30 UTC (Mon) by bfields (subscriber, #19510)
In reply to: Prior art won't solve the software patent problem (NewsForge) by smoogen
Parent article: Prior art won't solve the software patent problem (NewsForge)

gets spun rapidly by the monied interests as "crank hippy protesters who never did an 'honest days work' in their lives anyway"

Do you have examples of such spin?

It would seem rather difficult to sustain given that the protesters in question are often people who have actually spent much of their lives doing enormous amounts of highly visible work....