Re: [Patents] newsscan: Software patent limits 'go too far'

[Jean-Baptiste Soufron <jbsoufron@free.fr>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 20:33:27 +0200
Bernard Lang <Bernard.Lang@inria.fr> wrote:

> silly   ... they pretend patents are for our own good.
> 
>    we are supposed to be the beneficiaries.
> 
> but we all know the money goes to lawyers.
> 
> 
> And I stand buy my statement :  jurists are becoming a social cancer.
> 
>  which does not mean in any way that they are all bad guys.
> 
>  Cancer: useless cells that reproduce and proliferate uncontrollably,
> diverting the resources of the living body and perturbing its natural
> functions.

Well, just like computer :-)

Please, be serious. People like Norbert Elias studied this extension of
legal life in our countries and they put it in parrallel with the
development of democracy and the control of war amongst nations. 

The problem is not with jurists but with lobbying groups who organize
themselves so democracy will defend their own interests instead of yours
and mine.