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- From: Hartmut Pilch <phm@a2e.de>
- To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
- Cc: wynkoop@wynn.com, <seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, <C-FIT_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, <C-FIT_Release_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, <fairuse-discuss@nyfairuse.org>, <DMCA_Discuss@lists.microshaft.org>, <DMCA-Activists@gnu.org>, <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] Washington Times: Internet Patents Divide Industry
- Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 09:20:21 +0200 (CEST)
> > The use of terms such as "XYZ property" tends to encourage the people
> > to approach these issues with the asset-manager mentality. If we want
> > to encourage people to see these issues from other directions, we
> > should therefore reject such terms.
> >
>
> I agree. Now we just need to come up with a new term of art.
>
> I recommend saying "copyrights and patents" on the rare occasions
> where it makes sense to talk about both together.
"copyrights and patents and utility certificates and design patents and
chip topologies and ..."
?
The occasions where it makes sense to talk about all these together are
not as frequent as most people think, but by no means rare.
--
Hartmut Pilch, FFII & Eurolinux Alliance tel. +49-89-18979927
Protecting Innovation against Patent Inflation http://swpat.ffii.org/
160,000 votes 2000 firms against software patents http://noepatents.org/
- Re: [Patents] Washington Times: Internet Patents Divide Industry, (continued)
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