[Gllug] Stepping up on the patents front

[Mamading Ceesay]

On 6/9/05, Rob Crowther <robertc at boogdesign.com> wrote:
> The situation in the US might be about to change, which might affect the
> argument in Europe:
> 
> http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5737961.html
> 
> Though having read through the article the focus of the legislation
> seems to be to reduce the cost of lawsuits against Microsoft rather than
> to address the root problems of software patents.
> 

The article quotes the Business Software Alliance saying "improving
patent quality, making sure U.S. law is consistent with that of other
major countries and addressing disruptions caused by excessive
litigation."

Aren't these precisely the same arguments being used by the people
pushing the Computer-Implemented Inventions Directive.  I am so sick
and tired of deceptive rhetoric being used by politicians and other
folks trying to pull the wool over our eyes.

The proposed legislation seems far too reactive and does nothing to
stop bad patents being granted in the first place.

-- 
Mamading Ceesay

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change 
something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." 
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
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