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- From: Jama Poulsen <jama@debianlinux.net>
- To: patents@aful.org
- Subject: Re: [Patents] [belinda.don@scottishtories.org.uk: EU Software Patent Directive]
- Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 19:34:09 +0200
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 11:47:16AM -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >On the contrary, there are claims by economists that software patents do
> >stifle innovation and restrain economic growth within a country.
>
> There are also claims by economists that software patents do not stifle
> innovation and do not restrain economic growth within a country.
Sure, please give some links to those studies upon which those claims are
made. Then we should be able to verify if there's any value in those claims.
I doubt those studies are half as relevant as those found on:
http://swpat.ffii.org/archive/mirror/impact/index.en.html
The point is that there's little to no evidence (from what I've seen) to
backup 'economic growth' claims due to software patents, and that we should
make very clear to MEP's who seem persuaded (directly, but mainly indirectly)
by that argument.
Jama Poulsen
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