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

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:10, Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> That's why it's really refreshing to see people raising today to fight
> software patents. But they should also remember that they stood silent
> for years and not put the blame on lawmakers whose job is not to guess
> what's right and wrong put to translate interests in words compatible
> with the existing legal system.

*cof*cof*

Patent lawyers are not guessing what's right and what's wrong. They are
actively pushing for software patents, as if a patent was a naturally
given right that needed extension, and all this on behalf of those poor
and starving lone geniuses.

Some of the lawmakers proposing software patents (or laws with loopholes
large enough to fill the whole planet earth through) have first or
second level vested interests in having software patents.

Rui

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