Alex Hudson wrote: > So I would suggest that the only people who have any figures worth > looking at are the ones spending money on IP processes, and doing the > big money deals: no-one else is really going to track this kind of > economic impact, but the pro-IP lobby will have plenty of "£X invested > with IP protection, £(X*Y) generated as outcome" as case studies at the > very least. So there's probably going to be good evidence in one > direction, and virtually none in the other.
Do you think there's an opportunity to point out these defects of the evidence call in a way that could be included? Given that the pro-IP lobby will submit stuff anyway, is there much damage in responding with whatever we do have? Thanks, -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work http://www.software.coop/products/ _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
