[Patents] regulation draft proposal: revision

[Xavier Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.org]

Gregory Aharonian va escriure el Wed, 20 Dec 2000 17:19:06 -0500 (EST)  :
>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.
>
Thank you. So we software developers can all go home and quit work.
All software needs are already solved. No need for any further development.

If there are needs left which haven't been met, why do you assume the 
reason is not software patents?. Have you asked every programmer?.

Your discourse is really hard to follow for me, you jump from one 
sentence to the next without apparent connection and state facts that 
seem mystically revealed to you alone, because they aren't apparent in the 
world I live. 

>new magazines.  And open source/network, I have given up trying to
>keep track of the endless amounts of new software posted at way
>too many sites.
>
That's probably the reason you don't consider patents a problem.

>So the answer is quite simple.  Hartmut, you may be afraid of
>software patents, but very few other people are. 

Hi!. We're here, we're some 60000+ signing the eurolinux petition...
this is 1E-5 of the total world population, granted, but my English 
teacher never taught me 60000 are "few people".

> There is no
>software application I need that I can't either buy from a vendor,
>find some source code on the Internet, and get some Linux
>consultant to develop for me (and by the way, Linux consultants
>under hire don't have anything to fear from patents for their
>activities - the responsbility passes to their client).
>
Oh! great!. so Linux consultants have only to fear their clients 
fear of software patents  leaves them with no customers. 
A charming perspective.

And don't pretend that an individual or SME can get a patent 
to withstand IBM or Microsoft (in a later mail from you). That's 
demagogy. Here you have a testimonial 

http://petition.eurolinux.org/consultation/sqlGetMail/10/viewMail?NO_COOKIE=true


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