Software patents at Santa Clara announces a conference where lawyers will discuss the legal details of how to end the software patent mess.

In PJ's comment to the news pick, she asks why they exclude the technical geeks and only invite lawyers. The answer looks simple: They are there to discuss the legal technicalities of how to outlaw software patents, not the moral and scientific reasons why they are bad in the first place.

Put another way, this seems like a meeting to figure out how to hack the law so it no longer sucks, and a lot of people talking about why it sucks or why code is math would just be a distraction preventing them from concentrating on fixing the bug.

Any geek who has worked hard to fix a really bad bug knows how distracting it is to have users shouting complaints at them during such a task, and I guess the lawyers feel the same.

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