[Patents] French State secretary for Industry against SoftPat

[pb@breese.fr (Pierre Breese)]

No. This says that Christian PIERRET was for development of the free
software, and that the terms resumed by the journalists concerning patents
are not exact.

Free software and patented software have to coexist. I regret the
dictatorship of the lobby of free software.

best regards

Pierre BREESE =20

>> "Il a bien dit qu'il =E9tait pour le d=E9veloppement du logiciel libre, 
>> mais=
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>> termes repris par les journalistes concernant les brevets ne sont pas to=
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>> fait exacts", temp=E8re l'entourage de Christian Pierret.
>=20
> This says that some counsellors around Mr Pierret are saying that the
> French Informatics Journal quoted Mr Pierret in a way that may have given
> rise to misunderstandings.  It doesn't say that he was misquoted, either
> by Informatique or by B. Lang.  I guess that the patent departments of
> Alcatel, France Telecom, Thomson, Microsoft/IBM France and others have a
> strong lobby in the French government.  But some people within the
> government, as elswhere, are starting to realise that these people are
> paper tigers, backed by a quasi-religious patent movement but not by
> the industry they claim to represent (and whose money by some rather
> incidental circumstances often happens to be controlled in their hands).
> Government officials know meanwhile that this whole lobby will collapse
> and their constituency will turn against them, once the issue is taken ou=
t
> into a wide-open public debate.  But of course it has to be done
> cautiously, step by step.