[Patents] French State secretary for Industry against SoftPat

[sf@fermigier.com (Stefane Fermigier)]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 09:47:46AM +0200, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> > B. LANG's (des)information was objected by State secretary :
> >
> > "Il a bien dit qu'il était pour le développement du logiciel libre, mais 
> > les
> > termes repris par les journalistes concernant les brevets ne sont pas 
> > tout à
> > fait exacts", tempère l'entourage de Christian Pierret.
> 
> 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.

As a matter of fact, they do!

There are right now quite ugly things going on on the side of the patent
lobby in France.

        S.

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