Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 19, 2004 06:09 PM
"While Harney's pro-patent and zealous free enterprise approach is well known in Ireland, the country's stance has not been fully understood elsewhere. "
This sentence is opposing 'not understanding' and 'knowing'. Do I have to believe that in Ireland, not only do people 'know' that someone (Harney) can be pro-patent (aka state-granted monopolies) *and* have a 'zealous free enterprise approach' ?
If so, please share some of your understanding to a poor foreigner.
Software patent are not only disruptive to free software, they are disruptive to softwre *free market*. While fields of technology as in TRIPs may benefit from granting monopolies for products. Software is so constrained by interoperability issues, and complexity (combination of hundreds of 'ideas' in one product) that allowing patents would kill free market as we would like to know it. Plese have a go at http://swpat.ffii.org
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pro-patent and free entrerprise ?
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 19, 2004 06:09 PMThis sentence is opposing 'not understanding' and 'knowing'. Do I have to believe that in Ireland, not only do people 'know' that someone (Harney) can be pro-patent (aka state-granted monopolies) *and* have a 'zealous free enterprise approach' ?
If so, please share some of your understanding to a poor foreigner.
Software patent are not only disruptive to free software, they are disruptive to softwre *free market*.
While fields of technology as in TRIPs may benefit from granting monopolies for products.
Software is so constrained by interoperability issues, and complexity (combination of hundreds of 'ideas' in one product) that allowing patents would kill free market as we would like to know it.
Plese have a go at http://swpat.ffii.org
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