[Patents] How to prevent a patent

[Bernard Lang Bernard.Lang@inria.fr]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 10:48:02AM +0100, Xavier Drudis Ferran wrote:
> PILCH Hartmut va escriure el Wed, 14 Feb 2001 02:05:17 +0100 (CET)  :
> >For many industries, business secret and some other strategies provide
> >enough of an incentive for innovation, so that there is no need to impose
> >renunciation of natural rights on everybody.  Please stop imposing this
> >renunciation on us and try to look for an honest job.  I am sure you can
> >find one.
> >
> 
> Well, I don't think it is such a dishonest job. Pushing for more power 
> to patent lawyers and the like isn't altruistic, but it is just minding 
> one's businesses. Mr. Breese's job would be clearly dishonest if I was to 
> do it, but he probably has some other values that are compatible with 
> the job. In any case, it is like defending the guilty, somebody has to 
> do it for the system to work. I am much more worried for people at large 
> allowing them to get too much power than for they trying to get it.


Mr Breese is clearly taking liberties with the truth when he pretends
to be defending the interests of SMEs, as he usually does.
   Available studies show that patents are of little use to SMEs, and
generally harmful.  And that is not just for software, but also in
other fields according to a recent study conducted in UK (not much to
be suspected of being against patents).

  see: http://info.sm.umist.ac.uk/esrcip/
       Intellectual Property Initiative

  So the usefulness of his job to his customers is at least disputable.

  Not to mention innuendos, verging libel, to be found on Mr. Breese's
site.

Bernard Lang

-- 
         Non aux Brevets Logiciels  -  No to Software Patents
           SIGNEZ    http://petition.eurolinux.org/    SIGN

Bernard.Lang@inria.fr             ,_  /\o    \o/    Tel  +33 1 3963 5644
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~lang/  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  Fax  +33 1 3963 5469
            INRIA / B.P. 105 / 78153 Le Chesnay CEDEX / France
         Je n'exprime que mon opinion - I express only my opinion
                 CAGED BEHIND WINDOWS or FREE WITH LINUX