Re: [Patents] Patent consultants, the public good, and altruism.

[Guillaume Ponce <contact@guillaumeponce.org>]

>> Am I to assume the Guillaume believes that those who research
>> patents, like myself, are part of the "egocentric and greedy
>> lobbyists" groups who benefit from poorly drafted and researched
>> patent applications?

> Are you an "egocentric and greedy lobbyist"?  No way for me to know.

> Do you (and Greg, and others) financially "benefit from poorly
> drafted and researched patent applications"?  Obviously.

> Those who financially benefit from a situation are going to be hard
> to believe they are working to help change the very thing they are
> benefitting from.


That is a point.  But I must admit that I am not comfortable with my
own wording and I apologize to some honnest and open minded
consultants that may have activities related to patents without
greedily hoping the broad adoption of sw patents on this side of the
Atlantic with no consideration for the public good.

And Gilman might not have received your post.  A private mail exchange
with him showed me that he did not send his 'unsuscribe' maliciously
as I suspected but that he was actually clueless about the way to
unsuscribe.  I showed him the link, so he may have unsuscribe for the
duration of his honeymoon.


-- Guillaume Ponce
http://www.guillaumeponce.org/