-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
2020 FLOSS Roadmap
,----[ Quote ]
| The main threat to FLOSS currently in the area of legislation is software
| patentability. Software patents make innovation more rigid, reinforce
| dominant positions, and work against the four freedoms. In the United States,
| where the principle of software patentability was validated in 1998 by the
| software law, software patents have generated many costly procedures and
| trials, and the system actually turns out to be prejudicial to the software
| industry.
`----
http://www.openworldobservatory.org/download/owf_roadmap_20020.pdf
Open source and the cloud to go mainstream
,----[ Quote ]
| [T]he community has to help set a tone of 'openness' when working with
| companies and governments, and encourage these to adopt the same approach. In
| addition, the community must push for a stable legal system for software -
| and this includes standing firm against the idea of software patents.
`----
http://software.silicon.com/applications/0,39024653,39359888,00.htm
Software Patents: Assets or Bubble?
,----[ Quote ]
| Why do you allow the European Patent Office to control the patent inflation
| and innovation of the EU, being a foreign institution to the EU?
`----
http://andalibre.org/confs/Patents-AssetsOrBubble-brussels20081205.pdf
Recent:
Economist Critic of Software Patents gets Nobel Prize
,----[ Quote ]
| The FFII congratulates Eric S. Maskin, an economist who has long criticised
| the patenting of software, for receiving the 2007 Nobel Prize for Economics.
| Prof. Maskin and two colleagues receive the Prize for research into the
| optimal design of economic mechanisms. By applying his theory to the IT
| sector, Maskin demonstrated "that in such a dynamic industry, patent
| protection may reduce overall innovation and welfare."
`----
http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/Economist_Critic_of_Software_Patents_gets_Nobel_Prize
Intellectual Property Regime Stifles Science and Innovation, Nobel Laureates
Say
,----[ Quote ]
| Patent monopolies are believed to drive innovation but they actually impede
| the pace of science and innovation, Stiglitz said. The current “patent
| thicket,” in which anyone who writes a successful software programme is sued
| for alleged patent infringement, highlights the current IP system’s failure
| to encourage innovation, he said.
|
| Another problem is that the social returns from innovation do not accord with
| the private returns associated with the patent system, Stiglitz said. The
| marginal benefit from innovation is that an idea may become available sooner
| than it might have. But the person who secures the patent on it wins a
| long-term monopoly, creating a gap between private and social returns.
`----
http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1129
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux)
iEYEARECAAYFAkk90ccACgkQU4xAY3RXLo6/xgCeMvpI1Fb+kgEUdqMERBCAa1zF
TvAAoIs9INQWUy0ZVswXEVzhULzAYEAs
=oY8o
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
|
|
