[Policy-team] Groundhog day: Leaflet for Software Patents

[Erik Albers]

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First, thank you all very much for your spontaneous efforts to improve
our leaflet about software patents, you are great!

On 05/18/2012 12:05 PM, Hugo Roy wrote:
> Innovation is sort of the point of the patent system. So maybe
> this paragraph should stay there to explain that software patent
> actually work against innovation in software.
I agree. "Innovation" is a buzzword when it comes to talk with
politicians about software patents. Because one of the most repeated
arguments from our opposition is that patents boost innovation. And
therefore patents are needed for nations economy to be innovative.
IMHO it is important for our work to try reframing this argument and
open up peoples mind: that the freedom of creation produces much more
innovation than a patent system who serves monolistic economies. Such
a system, instead, reduces innovation in the hands of just a few
players holding the patent rights.
If we ever like to persuade the majority of a Parliament about the
negative aspects of software patents, I think "innovation" will be a
key argument to get them on board.

cheers,
Erik

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