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

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

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 17:58, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >A fact is that you have to be big enough to be able to produce these
> >technologies,...  To produce electronics, biotech, pharma, you must
> >have laboratories and plants.
> 
> Obviously you know nothing about electronics (and probably the rest as
> well).  In Silicon Valley, there are lots of SMEs designing electronic
> circuits which they license to other companies to manufacture.  It is
> a large business, and all that it is required to be in this business is
> come good ideas and reasonably priced circuit design tools.  Such
> companies designing electronic circuits then sell or license the VHDL
> or Verilog or SystemC codes, but like software people.  And they
> protect their designs with patents.

This seem another distortion, a design is nothing more than information,
copyright would be a more appropriate form of protection, that would
make it possible to have this kind of SME.
btw, can you give us a definition of small company?

> Other fields such as biotech and pharma have similar pathways for SMEs
> to do R&D and build a business.

Do you have an idea of how much a laboratory cost to be run?
You can't do biotech and pharma on a computer.

> And with a good idea, you can raise the funding where the costs might
> be higher than for other fields.

What do you need founding for in software business? To pay your patent
lawyer? To buy licenses to use ideas patented by others?
I produce software everyday, but I do not need to raise funds ...

> You have a very naive,  inexperienced view of how businesses start and
> thrive.

Or you may have a way too much distorted view of how a society should
regulate markets.

Simo.

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