Re: [Patents] EU Commission: Competitive and efficient European enterprises

[Simo Sorce <simo.sorce@xsec.it>]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 16:36, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >.. So that is the reason why the commission wants software to be
> >.. patentable?  E.g, to help make software development like tapdancing
> >.. in a minefield especially for SME.
> 
> Grow up.  Many other fields of technology (electronics, communications,
> biotech, pharma, etc.) have learned to tapdance in these patent minefields.

The fact that other markets suffer for this insanity does not mean this
has to be extended elsewhere.

> It is something mature industries learned to deal with.

And something the software industry can and should avoid.

> There is nothing special or holy about software engineering.

It's just subject to a different model of innovation, that does not cope
with monopolies.

> And if you bothered to do any research, you would find the minefields
> in these other areas of technology much worse than for software, in
> terms of real legal problems companies big and small are experiencing.

First: there cannot be small companies in the above fields, the capitals
needed to start an activity in that fields already bans small companies.

Second: there is strong opposition from bio-scientists to bio-tech
patents too.

Third: All the above fields play with matter not with ideas.

> But in fantasy land, imagine what you want.

They said the same when people dreamed of flying some century ago.
Sarcasm will not gain you anything.


Simo.

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