From nico@monnet.to  Thu Oct 12 19:37:11 2000
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:37:11 +0200 (CEST)
From: Nicolas MONNET nico@monnet.to
Subject: [Patents] simple questions

On Thu, 12 Oct 2000, Roberto Micarelli wrote:

|I would like to ask people who agree with software patents some simple questions.
|
|Do you think that IT needed patents to get better?
|Don't you think that it was already working well, without patenting everything?
|People are doing good businesses since at least 20 years with IT, and patents are
|just one of the most recent issues in this field.
|Why to change something which shows to play nice?

(guessing) Because it does'nt generate enough attorney fees so
far?

|Where interests to do that come from?
|Where are universities and why costs are so high?
|Why is the open source world never taken into account?
|Why don't you ask for a zero-cost patenting process, only substained by taxes?

Apparently, to the whole pro patent clique, the self funding of the EPO
and USPTO is great since it promotes the approval of as many patents as
possible, even the dumbest ones. Hence more money for ... err you know
who.






