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- From: Russell McOrmond <russell@flora.ca>
- To: AFUL Patent Forum <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] That Article
- Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 23:38:42 -0500 (EST)
On Fri, 3 Dec 2004, Gregory Aharonian wrote:
> One of the major reasons that software patenting took off in the 1990s
> in the United States
An interesting revision of history, but not one that many are likely to
let by. Software patenting took off in the United States because of a
corrupted process dominated where special interests like patent lawyers
and patent offices were allowed to radically rewrite economic public
policy without even allowing consultation with either economists or the
actual practitioners who will be harmed by the policy.
To err is human, to really fowl things up requires "manufactured
consent" between extremists.
> Copyright fundamentally does not protection functionality. Software is
> fundamentally functionality. The two will always be opposed.
They are not opposed, since only extremists and outsiders believe it is
desirable to protection functionality in order to promote innovation in
software.
--
Russell McOrmond, Internet Consultant: <http://www.flora.ca/>
Have you, your family, your friends (, your enemies) signed the
Petition to the Canadian Parliament for Users' Rights in Copyright?
http://digital-copyright.ca/petition/
- Re: [Patents] That Article, (continued)
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