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- From: Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>
- To: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>, Gregory Aharonian <srctran@world.std.com>
- Cc: news@ffii.org, patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Finnish organisations against CEC/BSA Directive Proposal
- Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:08:51 +0200
On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:00:34AM +0200, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
>
> Thus MySQL & Co are still underestimating the wreckless nature of the
> patent movement in Europe.
you do make one mistake, Harmut :
This patent movement is reckless but unfortunately not wreckless.
There are already examples of companies killed by patent litigation,
based on patents that have since then been cancelled for lack of
innovation (by another company with more money to fight)
I understand that now that ENRON is out, there is more electricity
so that Robot Greg can run again.
Bernard
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