From phm@a2e.de  Wed Jun 13 08:11:27 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 09:11:27 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: [Patents] Stopping the 'patent war' between companies -- solution
 -- non-aggression agreement (noaa)
In-Reply-To: <20010612233441.3BCCD10D47@stabilite.aful.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106130905370.3265-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

> I've came to one idea, that may be good.

There has been a lot of talk about this, see

	http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/minra/sarxeen.html

Organising something like it in a serious way could of course be a
milestone on the way to solving the problem, just as Solidarity was a
milestone in Poland.  And some people have been trying to do that for
years.  Another attempt is to take place this summer at the initiative
at one of those activists, Bruce Perens.

See also

	http://swpat.ffii.org/stidi/gacri/

on the game rules under which we have to operate.  It is of course much
more complicated than the "prisoner's dilemma".

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Hartmut Pilch                                           http://phm.ffii.org/
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation	      http://swpat.ffii.org/
79950 signatures against software patents         http://www.noepatents.org/




