[Patents] Economic assessment

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

This whole discussion is not conducted as it should.

According to the US constitution, and to simple good sense,
the burden of the proof is on those who wish to establish patents
in a given area of technology, not those who reject it.

   Greg has systematically declined to justify why there should be
software patents. Indeeed, he seemed to state that there is no
economic justification for any kind of patent.  His argument seems to
be that rejecting soft patents would shows the futility of the whole
patent system, and that such a revolution is not acceptable.

  In other words, it is bad to rock the boat, better drown the
programmers.

Since he refuses to justify economically software patents,
  I do not even see where there is a basis for debate.

Bernard




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