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

[David GLAUDE Mailing <dglaudemailing@gmx.net>]

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.
> It is something mature industries learned to deal with.  There is nothing
> special or holy about software engineering.  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.  But in fantasy land, imagine what you want.

Assuming software engineering is not a mature field of technonlogy, do 
we have to suffer like other industry because of something special or 
holy like patent?

The thing that is special or holy about software engineering is that we 
implement pure idea in non material, non physical world. Other field of 
technology do need inventive (and non inventive) software too. The 
reverse is not really true, we don't need pharma or biotech (but we need 
some non inventive electronics that we call generic computer or turing 
machine).

Basicaly I don't want those trouble. It is difficult to evaluate if the 
minefield will be worse or not for software, but we have good reason to 
say NO to software patent. I don't ask for an exception, I ask for the 
respect of the rules set long ago and that the EPO is not respecting 
anymore.

David GLAUDE

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