From phm@a2e.de  Wed Dec 27 09:36:34 2000
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:36:34 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de
Subject: [Patents] patent pools enforcing per-copy-licensing mode ofsoftware
 development

Good Morning Mr Endres,

>   thank you for the free advertisement for my recent paper.
> Why don't you do the same for my recent 500 pages book?
> It contains a lot of information and many provoking thoughts
> on our subject. It deserves a critical review by the FFII.
> Unfortunately, it is not a "public good" yet. 

The ideas expressed therein are probably public goods, unless, in the
light of co-design tools*, you have succeeded in patenting them.

In 1981, I invented the "ecological tax" system our German government is
currently hesitantly introducing. I think I deserve 0.01 EUR per liter of
gasoline as a royalty.

Having read Turing, Church and Postel**, you certainly know that social
engineering is equivalent to industrial engineering.  It is the next item
to be digested by the patent system, and the fact that I don't get to levy
that charge of 0.01 EUR right now is a typically European communist
outrage.

NOTES
* and **: ask Greg for further enlightenment on this    






