Hi,
Articles were published commenting on the recent official position of the German government against patents.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2826171,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews... http://fr.news.yahoo.com/011121/35/2a0op.html http://www.vnunet.fr/actu/article.htm?numero=8803
I was not able to find the exact text (is there an interview somewhere ?). Also some comments worry me since they seem to imply that the study on which the German government position is based recommends that the "software patent process should be simplified".
I'm a bit confused here, does someone have precise information on this subject ?
Cheers,
On Friday 23 November 2001 09:43, Loic Dachary wrote:
I'm a bit confused here, does someone have precise information on this subject ?
this is the comment that appeared on the swpat mailing lits at aful.org:
From: PILCH Hartmut phm@a2e.de Under
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2826171,00.html Germany speaks out for open source
you find another clueless article on the recent German study. A pseudo-debate about "maintaining the conservative EPO practise" vs "extending patent laws to adjust to US practise" is under way, and European journalists, are copying/translating/transcribing press releases exchanged between patent movement activists wearing the hats of governments, corporations or law firms.
That is how the invisible hand in the newsmedia economy, especially on the Internet, works: it punishes real research and rewards fast thoughtless "copywriting". The iron rule of such copywriting is
Thou shalt not reveal thy source
Thus you find the same junk all over the news media, without a link to the original press release, but each of them hoping to attract some hits to some advertiser's page.
Given these iron rules, we must be glad that the media treat the subject at all.
More real information about this is being built up at
http://swpat.ffii.org/vreji/papri/bmwi-fhgmpi01/
But never expect this link to be given by any of the upcoming clueless big media reports.