[Gllug] Software Patents - reply

[Rev Simon Rumble]

The most staggering part of this diatribe is:
"We have an obligation to legislate not just for one section of the
software industry who seeks to impose its business model on the rest
of industry, which moreover is not "free", but is actually a different
form of monopoly by imposing a copyright licence system on users."

The implication being that open source software imposes its licence
system on users?!?  Users have every opportunity to NOT use OSS.  They
don't however, get the right to use a technique that has been
patented, regardless of the license.  Sounds more monopolistic to me!

The rest of the article sounded reasoned and written by someone who
understands the issues.  But then I get to this:
"If we fail to offer European industry the possibility of patent
protection, we will hand over our inventiveness and creativity to big
business, who can cherrypick ideas and patent them."

Which ignores the "prior art" idea of patentability, exposing this
person as having no idea how it works.

Labour voters in particular, please write this twit a letter and tell
her you voted for the party last time.

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