From pelegrin@labri.u-bordeaux.fr  Thu Dec 21 14:16:01 2000
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:16:01 +0100
From: Francois PELLEGRINI pelegrin@labri.u-bordeaux.fr
Subject: [Patents] regulation draft proposal: revision

	Bonjour Mr Aharonian,

> But here is an equivalent question.  What software application needs
> to people have that aren't being met because people are afraid to
> write software because of patents?  The answer - none.
> 
> So - tell me - tell us - what software application need isn't being
> met many times over because of the fear of software patents?  Huh?


	We already answered (partly) this question with the example
of Purify (commercial) vs. Electric Fence (libre), the latter not
being allowed to implement patented memory leak detection (trivial)
algorithms. And the need is real !
	But you may have been caught in a time vortex the day I posted
my reply...

	Another salient example is MP3 encoders, with for instance BladeEnc
vs. Thomson Multimedia the villain, and all of the Ogg sequels...


	An effort to collect such data is in progress. Which may also
help preventing you spreading false statements regarding this point.


					f.p.




