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

[Seth Johnson <seth.johnson@RealMeasures.dyndns.org>]

Jean-Baptiste Soufron wrote:
> 
> Ideally, law should not be made for any specific interest but for the
> interest of the public in general. As there is nothing called "the
> public in general" in real life, law is always made in favor of
> organised interests. If computer scientists don't try to defend their
> interest in front of lawmakers (judges, politics, activists...), there
> is no suprise that their interests are greatly underestimated.


The fundamental stakeholders in exclusive rights are the public, not the
rights holders.

Seth Johnson


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