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2007-03-04

  • 19:34 UTC (diff) 2007-02-25 There Is No Ethical Patent . . . . 200.12-65-87.adsl-dyn.isp.belgacom.be Update 2007 03 04 : FFII has posted a [http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-5313/jumping-the-shark clarification about the ethical patent campaign]. I agree on the point regarding that the disclosure process in the patent system is not working. Every programmer knows that's often impossible to implement anything from a patent description as it is often rewritten by lawyers. But jumping in the patent system for building a new patent system based on general good principle is dangerous just because not all the players in the patent are playing fair. Promoting existing authors rights as an industrial measure and metric for innovation looks more useful in my eyes. I hope that FFII will clearly state in their campaign that software/computer programs are only protected by the authors rights /copyright and not by the broken patent system.

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