From phm@a2e.de  Sun Dec  9 17:34:03 2001
From: phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:34:03 +0100 (CET)
Subject: [Patents] Re: Open source as a job training model for Europe (fwd)
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112091833440.5027-100000@mulix.oas.a2e.de>

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Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 18:31:53 +0100 (CET)
From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
To: intprop-l@topica.com
Cc: epo@mlist.austria.eu.net
Subject: Re: Open source as a job training model for Europe

> > The following are excerpts from a recent study done by a UCal Berkeley
> > graduate student on the growing failure of open source as a business
> > model.
>
> Why not tell us something about the "growing failure of copyright-based
> business models" ?
>
> The alternative to "software patents" is "software copyright", not
> "opensource", and even less "opensource business models".

Btw, thanks to Greg for this bibliographical hint to a good article, even
if this article is offtopic here and it doesn't support what Greg
asserted.

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