Re: [Patents] Open ingeneering\

[Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr>]

On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 11:07:58AM -0400, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> >what is mass manufacturing of software ?
> >and how much are you paid to write on this list stuff you cannot
> >possibly believe yourself.
> 
> >references ... regarding software technology ?
> 
> Have you ever been in an engineering library in your life?  If you had,
> you would have encountered large numbers of software engineering journals
> and conferences dealing with software as engineered product, with system
> designs based on customer surveys and existing product designs, system
> designs that are then made more concrete in software design tools that
> are often the same as the hardware design tools, the more concrete
> implementations tested and verified for correctness, etc.  There is
> tremendous amounts of literature.
> 
> And some of the best work in this area is done by European researchers
> funded by European Commission. All you have to do is show some real
> interest in these issues, and seek out information on what is really
> going on in the world of software engineering.  Heck, from what I hear,
> even INRIA has a decent engineering library - USE IT!!!!!
> 
> 
> Greg Aharonian

the full quote is:

> > If you look at the history of technology in all areas, including software
> > technology, innovation has benefitted both from altruistic people and from
> > greedy people wanting to make use of patents. 
> 
> references ... regarding software technology ?


You evade as usual (which supports my view that you do not even believe
what you say) :

    give one reference stating that "software technology innovation
has benefitted [...] from [...] people wanting to make use of
patents."

   you made the statement ... you sustain it ou you shut up.


  ... and the issue is not whether one particular innovation was
helped by patents but whether patents are globally
(i.e. macro-economically) supportive of innovation in software.

BL

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