[Patents] simple questions

[dewaz dewaz@ran.es]

PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> 
> > Look at the number of software products on the market, the number of
> > pages of publications for IT, the number of jobs, etc.  All have been
> > steadily rising for years, and will only drop for non-patent reasons
> > (like the NASDAQ crashing or the Internet mania losing its potency).
> 
> For many years, there were only a few software patents around.
> The number of patents is now increasing much faster than the number of IT
> jobs.
> But the IT market is still expanding.
> This will however not go on without limits.
> When people start getting worried about limited ressources, they will look
> at how they can use their by then big patent portfolios to fight off
> competitors.

If they do so ,they will lost even the pocket money.

> And even while the IT market continues expanding, it will be forced into a
> capitalist pattern with investors and patent lawyers determining the
> direction.
> The days where a small group of people would write a nifty program and
> earn money through copyright will be gone, just as the days where people
> sooner or later published source code and contributed to a public sphere
> of open source software.
> 

That has no stop.
Do not give up!!
;^)

> Just as Mr Dignatz said in Bruxelles:  if you destroy an ecosystem, it
> won't come back again for decades.  And in Europe, this is the ecosystem
> that is currently flourishing.  Huge enterprises centered around capital
> and lawyers are an American phenomenon, and for long years to come, such
> concentration will not take place in Europe but in Silicon Valley.

Well IMHO usually lawyers are no more greedier than customers who pay
them. 
I understand capitalism as a balance of more or less auto controlled
forces.
Soft patent break the balance and make the free market really difficult.
I think than the worse we ,anti soft patent, could do is performing a
sort of Europe versus USA.
IS NOT THAT!
It is  an universal problem ,in Hamburg or in Cleveland.


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