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- From: Alex Macfie <alex@cgce.net>
- To: Carsten Svaneborg <svanebor@mpip-mainz.mpg.de>, patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] EU Commission: Competitive and efficient European enterprises
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2003 10:42:38 +0100
At 11:27 09/04/03 +0200, Carsten Svaneborg wrote:
So that is the reason why the commission wants to software to
be patentable? E.g. to help make software development like
tapdancing in a minefield especially for SME.
Could be that the sort of "entrepreneurs" they want to help are patent
speculators. Like ticket touts, these people represent a particularly evil
form of the non-productive sector.
Alex
Alex Macfie www.cgce.net alex@cgce.net
Trewarren, Llanddewi Rhydderch, Abergavenny, Gwent NP7 9UT
"The exclusive right to invention [is] given not of natural right,
but for the benefit of society." -- Thomas Jefferson
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