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- From: Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>
- To: Ward Vandewege <ward@pong.be>
- Cc: David GLAUDE <dglaudemailing@gmx.net>, <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] [Fwd: [asbl-libre] point de vue CD & V software patent]
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 15:38:58 +0200 (CEST)
> http://openstandaarden.be/maillists/openstandaarden/3255.html
>
> In a nutshell it says 'Mr. De Clercq is pro sw-pats, because he is in favour
> of a strong protection of intellectual property, out of principle'. The
> short
> statement does not give me the impression that Mr. De Clercq fully
> understands all the issues at stake here - or maybe he doesn't care.
I suspect the latter. He is probably not as stupid as his assistant wants
us to believe.
To address the "property" ideology of many "liberals" (e.g. german FDP
speaker and law expert Funke recently called his party "the party of
property" and pushed for a more severe implementation of EuroDMCA), it is
helpful to explain that patents can undermine intellectual property, and
that this is systematically the case in software.
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-12789608
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
145,000 votes 400 firms against software patents http://noepatents.org/
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