Re: [Patents] Voice of patenting business

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

On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 16:26 +0200, Francois PELLEGRINI wrote:
> Not so much. What the pro-patent lobby says, as in
> the recent "Italian" lobby letter, is that although
> copyright protects programs, whether in source or
> binary, the underlying concepts are not protected,
> and thus require patent protection.
> 
> The EU Commission and Council do not say anything
> else, too. They want *both* : coipyright for the
> codes, and patent for the algorithms.
> 
> So, the key point is that one must prove that swpats
> are beneficial to have them enforced. Period.

My algorithms can compile perfectly in C...

Some of them can be run directly in PERL...

There is no difference other than linguistic details between an
algorithm and source code.

Just clarifying that, because I fully agree with you.

Hugs, Rui

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