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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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