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From: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
To: <patents@aful.org>
Subject: Re: On State Sovereign Immunity and Senate Bill 2031
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 10:37:06 +0200 (CEST)

I wonder whether this battle is worth taking sides.
It is like the battle between large companies and "small inventor"
associations: a nul sum game making the patent system unpopular with the
one or other side, where both of the sides use a lot of selfish lobbying
arguments not worth supporting, and no matter what the outcome, some
opportunity is created for those who want to debunk patent movement
propaganada, create a counter-weight and draw attention to the software
issue.

Some documentation on the universitarian patent movement, particularly but
not only in Germany, is collected at

        http://swpat.ffii.org/players/bmbf/

--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance              tel. +49-89-12789608
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation       http://swpat.ffii.org/
100,000 signatures against software patents      http://www.noepatents.org/

Re: On State Sovereign Immunity and Senate Bill 2031, PILCH Hartmut

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