[Patents] Black and white

[orre@nada.kth.se (Roland Orre)]

Dear S.C., whoever you are.

I saw your posting earlier before I went to a meeting and my intuition
told me that you were not worth discussing with, and when later reading
some of your postings it proved my theory. Your arguing is totally
inconsistent, which means that you either don't know anything about
what you are talking or you just want to confuse a serious debate.
Obviously you are pro software patents of some reason, but you
have not expressed why.

Your ["good vs evil", "black and white" ":-)"] as in your posting
turned on the crackpot warning sign.

I just want to ask you:

* Why are you pro software patent?
  I don't want that fuzzy non informative arguing I've heard so
  many times now. I want to know your own selfish reason to be that.

* In case you have a serious reason, why are you not acting seriously?

* What are your motives to post something like this (except the
  obvious, to cause confusion)?

  Roland Orre

On Fri, 4 May 2001 kodama@netcourrier.com wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have been reading some threads for weeks, and the feeling I have
> is that you really see the world in a black and white way.

> For instance, the threads about "Free software vs software patents".
> However, if you look carefully how works the business, the same
> companies may fund free software AND file patent applications. The 2
> worlds could exist together.
>
> Another manichean thread is "US patent owners" against european poor
> company". But where do you have seen that european companies do not
> have any software patents ?? The point is that every software
> company having a long-term strategy do have software patents, in US
> or in Europe. Anyway, it is somewhat stupid to see the world as a
> Europe vs US war.
>
> Last (only because I have no time to go through every arguments :-)
> ), there is always and always the same old argument about big
> company owning patents and start-ups without any. Again a stupid
> dichotomy :

> - a lot of startup do have patents !

> - the main asset of a start-up vis a vis big companies when
> negociating partnerships or contracts is patent portfolio. Otherwise,
> how to measure their know-how and what they bring ?

> In addition, a start-up making R&D without patenting may easily be
> copied by other bigger companies (or other start-ups : start up does
> not mean white goose !). The only mean to prevent this is patenting> !

> Again, one may go on and go pointing out the silly arguments that
> some of people there do write and rewrite all the time. I hope that
> many of them are still students, so without any real knowledge about
> business world. That may be an excuse.
>
> But seeing everything in b&w, good vs evil,... well youth and
> inexperience is not a sufficient excuse :-)
>
> S. C
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