[Patents] What makes history??

[critto@poczta.wp.pl (Krzysztof Sobolewski)]

Hello y'all.
I've been just thinking about history, and WHAT has made it.

After my considerations, I came to conclusion, that those were not 
the laws; the laws have been repealed, broken or neglected as it 
happens all the time; the bad and good laws altogether, to add.

The software-patent supporters claim, that we must introduce sw 
pats in Europe, because WTO and WIPO demand it, in their 
regulations.

Then I came to conclusion: WHAT, if Europe renounced all, or only 
parts, of WTO's and WIPO's treaties? What could such action be 
named like?

Certainly, it would be NOT the law as such; even if Europe was 
going just to neglect the TRIPS, she's free to do so. Just to break 
this treaty, et voila. What could happen then?

Could US, or any other 'power' wage a war on Europe, with rockets, 
tanks, warships, jet fighters and even nukes? It's unlikely. US is 
not a mad, bloody EMPIRE, and even some empires (as USSR 
when it existed) didn't think to attack Europe for real.

So, the threat of military action may be thrown to the dustbin (of 
history). What next?

Sure, US could impose some sanctions on Europe. But, what 
could happen then? We produce the food, we produce cars, we 
produce steel and other industrial products, we produce hi-tech and 
NOTHING could change. After all, EU DOESN'T accept some 
American products, as beef and bananas; US yell, whine and cry 
about it, but nobody cares. We have our own bananas; beef is not 
very popular because of BSE, so we changed our flavors to chicken 
meat, beacon and other kinds.

WE, EUROPEANS are the superpower; meanwhile, our 'leaders' 
act like the servants of USA and of the organizations like WTO or 
WIPO; they are no leaders at all, but a handful of stupid guys.

Well, the drive to patent everything is -- as we all know it here -- 
VERY DANGEROUS. In many ways, it's similiar to the drive to 
relegalise slavery in XVII/XVIIIth century, after the ages of its 
nonexistence (peasantry was similiar, but not equal to slavery). 
Simply, it started to PAY the plantation owners in Americas to buy 
slaves, so it became payable to pirates and corsairs to catch the 
slaves in Africa (and in other continents, too; there were even the 
slaves from Europe, and a lot of Asia). NO laws, NO Christian 
values meant anything: MONEY was the most important factor.

Now, what I call to, is NOT the negation of capitalism or of 
globalisation. But the capitalism must be based on free-market; the 
non-market 'capitalism' is being called 'fascism' by the pro-market 
libertarians (there's a good essay titled "Towards the libertarian 
theory of fascism) -- it's the kind of socialism for the owning class 
(by contrast to the 'proletariat's socialism')

Globalisation must mean TO GO GLOBAL WITH FREEDOM; with 
free minds, free ideas, free actions, and free markets; with global 
laissez-faire. The patents are something contrary to the laissez-
faire ideas: they constitute the governmental assault on the free 
flow of goods and ideas, to benefit some groups at the expense of 
others; their existence mean that there is "win-lose" strategy, 
instead of the "win-win" one, existing in the Free Market conditions 
only.

We NEED the reasonable opposition to WTO and WIPO; and to 
IMF and WB as well. The rioting young hooligans, who break 
windows' glass, set arsons and beat up policemen is NOT the 
opposition to the enslavement those organisations bring us; all 
they oppose to is the REMAINING FREEDOM, the rests we still 
have. They're as dangerous as the global cartel of governments and 
corporations, which together are called 'World Trade Organisation', 
'World Intellectual Property Organisation', 'International Monetary 
Fund' or 'WB'.

One may claim, that the "anti-globalisation" hools are just the 
hools and no opposition at all -- but they are too well organised to 
be the hools ONLY.

And so, while libertarians agree with leftists on the issue of 
ABOLITION of those organisation, they differ on the reasons of this 
way. While leftists are against freedom, we, libertarians, promote 
freedom and we read the global tyrants as the biggest threat to it.

If the sw-patents is not enough to be called 'tyranny', look at the 
DMCA -- it's compatible with the WIPO's world policy. Now, there's 
SSSCA (SS came from the nazi-SS as I think, so 
SchutzSchtafetten Shit is Coming Act ;) would be a good shortcut 
for it), which, if passed, would PROHIBIT writing any programs 
which don't contain the copy-protection measures, not just the 
ones who allow to break them. And, if it's passed in USA (which 
seems unlikely), we may see WIPO pushing it in Europe.

Fortunately, not all of our governments are stupid. Some of them 
use Linux and prefer it to Windows or other crap (sorry, Microsoft), 
and this gives us some hope that the stupidity of sw-pats will never 
be fully accepted in Europe.  

We should form a global coaliton opposing to tyranny; we need 
supporters in USA, too -- there's a lot of programmers and small 
companies who are threatened by the sw pats. Anyway, haven't 
the current economic troubles in IT branch been caused by sw-
patents and DMCA? Aren't the German programmers coming back 
to Germany from US because of Dimitry Sklyarov's case? I think 
this claim may be right ...

And now, there is the turn for Europe: to RENOUNCE any sw-
patent strategies, to abolish (or nationalise) all of them, and even to 
renounce parts of, or the whole, of WTO and WIPO treaties. We 
need FREE Europe; we have been too long enslaved by the 
totalitarian regimes; now, the new regime is coming, and we must 
defy it as well.

Brasil has defied (simply, broken) the AIDS-cure patent; Brasil is a 
local superpower, too, but it is far poorer than European countries 
altogether or even some of them alone (Germany, France). We 
should simulate her in this case -- this is the case for OUR, 
(PAN)EUROPEAN INDEPENDENCE.

And then, we see that we, in Europe, can make HISTORY again; 
by facts, NOT BY THE STUPID AND HARMFUL LAWS, which 
should be repealed, and while they are not, every free man and 
woman, and a company and a government should neglect and 
break them.

PS. This essay will be available on my pages -- I'm working on it.



Yours in Liberty,
     Krzysztof (Christopher) "Critto" Sobolewski

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