Re: Software Patent Concerns => New Black Markets?

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Robert C. Leif wrote:

> Benjamin Franklin, one of the wisest founders of the US, was supported by
> his patents and probably was instrumental in including the patent and
> copyright section in our constitution. Frankly, patents are absolutely
> essential for technological progress. They provide the motivation for
> investment. Although the US Government has funded my work on developing new
> technologies to detect cancer cells, it is the collection of patents that I
> have created, which will be the next source of funding. Unfortunately, the
> US Government's performance in protecting its citizens' intellectual
> property in other countries has ranged for poor to pitiful.
> 
> Since Ada posses the technology to create software components, a method to
> rigorously protect this type of intellectual property would greatly favor
> the use of Ada. 
> 
> However, we should now end this argument, since both sides can read the
> words of excellent advocates for their opinions.
> http://www.cio.com/archive/080103/debate_intro.html
> 
> Bob Leif

Nothing in that link changes my opinion that software is
an art form, and needs to be free as such. If anything, the
articles only amplify how bad the whole process has become,
and demonstrates a need for change.
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg