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- From: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca>
- To: Patent forum <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] EU Commission: Competitive and efficient European enterprises
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 23:32:40 -0400 (EDT)
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> Try running a real business - having to hire people and be able to pay
> for them with income from sales. If you actually have something worth
> a lot of money, I suspect you will be running to the patent system,.
It appears that Greg personally *defines* a "real business" as that
extremely small subset of software companies that would benefit from the
patent system.
As a software services company that has made a deliberate decision to
focus on Free/Libre and Open Source Software, which is legally
incompatible with software patents, I find his continual suggestion that I
do not run a "real business" to both insulting and without merit.
---
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Any 'hardware assist' for communications, whether it be eye-glasses,
VCR's, or personal computers, must be under the control of the citizen
and not a third party. -- http://www.flora.ca/russell/
- Integrating Intellectual Property Rights and Development Policy, (continued)
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