Re: [Patents] Finnish organisations against CEC/BSA DirectiveProposal

[Coulonges Philippe <cphil@cphil.net>]

Le Mardi 28 Mai 2002 17:27, Gregory Aharonian a écrit :

> Software is all process - the expression (such as the variable names,
> the indenting style, the comments) is irrelevant.

Glad to hear it. We can then save much space on our hard disks by destroying 
every source code. Once a program is compiled, we just keep the binary, and 
if a bug happens, we call you to find it with references to the swpats used. 

> Copyright laws around
> the world explicitly ban copyright protection for processes, processes
> such as software.  Courts in the US for thirty years struggled to find
> something about software that wasn't idea and process to be granted
> copyright protection, and couldn't.

These same courts could also have struggled to find something about soccer 
that isn't idea and process. Or something in the hunting instinct of a fox 
that isn't idea and process.

I don't claim I can define what the law is or should be, so please don't try 
to explain what software is, you seem as qualified in that field as my fox is 
in soccer.

> [...]
> Many software patents are bad, as I argue, not because they are patents,
> but because they are novel and/or unobvious.

What a lapsus !

CU
CPHIL

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