[Patents] Re: Open source as a job training model for Europe (fwd)

[phm@a2e.de (PILCH Hartmut)]

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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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