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- From: plover@cwcom.net (steve)
- Subject: [Patents] Free software and patents
- Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 17:20:01 +0100
Hi,
I'm not as vociforous as some seem to be but I'd have to say that software
patents are probably a bad thing in the long run. They will only help
inhibit the development of free software. Yes I think free 'as in free
speech' software is a good thing. That's why I spend my time contacting
politicians lobbying for no software patents in Europe. If the USA wants
them fine but I don't think they will exist in that form in the EU. You
don't need many member states to say no for something to fall flat in the
EU. It's a sort of all agree or nothing quasi democracy.
Software patents are like the WTO , a "free trade but we allways win" set
of practices and beleifs thrust on the world by those countries that under
specific groups of political leaders in the 70s and 80s devised the system
to beneft themselves.
Having said all that I don't have time to moan and whinge too much as I'm
too busy but I thought I should say that's what I think. Every one else is
doing it so why not me.
Regards Steve jarvis
- [Patents] Free software and patents, steve
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