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

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

On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 08:30:51PM +0200, Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> 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. 

reference ?

> 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.

But whether you like it or not, too many are jurists and look-alikes
who want to develop law jsut because it is a good business.

Bernard


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