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

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

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:22, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> Which more accurately reflects that there are both COPYRIGHT AND patent
> allegations involved with the SCO/IBM case.

SCO case doesn't regards copyrights nor patents, but perhaps violation
of a contract and NDAs, but more probably it is nothing more then FUD,
and lot of rumors just to try to make IBM acquire SCO, as SCO is in fact
dead.

> Yolin must be in the pay
> of copyright lawyers because whereas you can only create minefields
> with software patents for 20 years, you can create minefiles with
> software copyrights for 100+ years.  Gee, maybe this whole list is in 
> the pay of software copyright litigators.

Well, not the hole list, not me at list, the copyright law (especially
now that DMCA and EUCD has been implemented) are not very good, but not
nearly as bad as patents.

With copyright you _must_ knowingly copy others code to break, with
patents you only need to independently invent the same banal thing
others have invented with absolutely no intention to break on anything.

Except for too long duration and later extreme positions made with
DMCA/EUCD directives copyright is the right tool.

Simo.

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