[openbeos] Re: Petition: NO to software-patents
- From: "Peter Willis" <p.willis@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:13:36 -0700
I disagree.
I do my work because others can't.
I should be able to benefit from that work.
Life is short.
The whole free software/open source thing is a big
scam to funnel technology from, albeit, well meaning
idealists, world wide, into the hands of the technological
elite.
Those elite, of course, are the countries that have
the greatest economic clout and access to the most
technology, therefore using free offerings of techology
from elsewhere as technological and economic
leverage against the very people who create them.
If small software companies patent their works the
*local* economic value and community return of that
work is much greater.
If you want to fix the technological woes of the world
your work is better spent lobbying governments, of
the developed world, to *train-their-own-people*
and *develop-their-own-technology* instead
of absorbing them from less developed nations.
There would be fewer problems in many sectors
if the developed world pulled its educational weight,
for a change, by improving their own academic levels,
and *paying* for technologies received from abroad.
Software is information. This is now an information
economy. Software has economic value.
Peter
>Hello,
>
>Please excuse the little off-topic post, but if you did not already do so,
you should really think about signing this petition:
>http://petition.eurolinux.org/index_html?LANG=en
>
>Patents kill free software, and are mostly misused by big companies to
protect their closed-source- and max-profit-strategies...
>
>Regards,
>Hugh
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