Re: Fw: [Patents] French high level civil servant warns about spwatdanger

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

Hi,

Gregbot doesn't seem to really want to accept there's a world outside
the USA.

RUi

On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:13, Jean-Bernard CONDAT wrote:
> Yes, as a French IP specialist, I can certify that Mr. Yolin have a great
> important in the IT area in france. Perhaps you don't understand the
> copyright (french version of ©) european law. It's extremely different of
> the american point-of-view.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jean-Bernard CONDAT
> Chrystol: first IP insurance for all {software) patents
> condat@chrystol.com
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Rui Miguel Seabra" <rms@1407.org>
> To: "Brevets" <patents@aful.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Patents] French high level civil servant warns about
> spwatdanger
> 
> 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
-- 
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi
+ So let's do it...?

Please AVOID sending me WORD, EXCEL or POWERPOINT attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part