Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> No, not just corporate pressure groups...
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> Rabbits and foxes
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>| At an FFII meeting last week, I realised what governments
>| have been thinking. Patents = innovation. This seems
>| obvious but it took me a while to grasp. Governments
>| actually believe that more patents means more innovation.
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> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/rabbits_and_foxes
>
> Also today:
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> Years of deadlock on EU patent bring some new thinking
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>| When Bill Gates visits Brussels on Thursday to speak with
>| government officials, software developers and customers,
>| he plans to wade into one of Europe's longest-running,
>| most fruitless debates: the pursuit of a unified patent
>| system. Gates, chairman of Microsoft, wants a simple
>| system that will allow the world's largest software maker
>| and other companies to protect their intellectual property
>| in the European Union - and profit from licensing their
>| patents.
> `----
>
> http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/08/business/patents.php
IMHO, UK justices has the right idea when they recently threw
out of court a software patent issue. Their point was
software is an abstract idea, hardware of which software is a
component is patentable.
Basically what I am seeing is not management by upright
behaviour and common good of man. Instead it is a ploy of
what loopholes one use with profit at all costs as motive.
I hope the EU legislative and justice systems can see the
potential unfairness of the system and make proper changes in
precedence and law to allow fair and open competition.
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HPT
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