Re: [Patents] French high level civil servant warns about spwat danger

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 18:22, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> If Mr. Yolin understood anything about the SCO/IBM case, or IP law in
> general, we would have stated something more accurate like:
>       .... that COPYRIGHTS and patents were created to induce
>         .... innovation but that they have been diverted to 
>         .... create minefields and neutralize "embarassing"
>         .... competitors.  Now COPYRIGHT AND patent holders send
>         .... lawyers when the competitors is looking for funds and
>         .... customers.

Actually, isn't the SCO vs IBM case a matter of contractual rights that
alledgedly have been broken by IBM? As in, it's not a matter of
Copyright nor Patent law?

Maybe the Mr. Yolin read only some of the dreadfully confusing SCO many
alegations (which I might remind that some of them even seem to change
over time) as for instance when they threatened to sue Linus Torvalds
for patent infringement...

Who's confused and failing to understand something?

Rui
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