Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
Brian Hulley <bri...@metamilk.com> writes:
The main problem for me is just the fact that the legal system in
itself is, as Charles Dickens wrote in "The Old Curiosity Shop"
(Chapter 37):
... an edged tool of uncertain
application, very expensive in the working,
and rather remarkable for its properties of
close shaving, than for its always shaving
the right person.
I like Humorix's take on the issue of patents
(http://humorix.org/articles/2000/01/linux-history1/):
Lawyers Unite
=============
Humanity faced a tremendous setback ca. 1100 A.D., when the first law
school was established in Bologna. Ironically, the free exchange of
ideas at the law school spurred the law students to invent new ways
(patents, trademarks, copyrights) to stifle the free exchange of ideas
in other industries.
Hi Ivan,
Thanks for the humourous take on the unfairness of software patents.
I have to admit however that I do own a trademark, namely "Xipal"
(European Community Trade Mark No 007366693). (It is pronounced
"ZeepAhl" with the "ee" as in "keep".)
I just mention this because I want to make sure that anyone reading the
archive in the future understands that I *do* see a positive role for
the legal profession in our life today. My gripe is only about the
unfairness of software patents and the way they serve only to stifle out
hope for small businesses like the one I'm trying to create. (Metamilk
Limited, registered in Scotland as SC270127)
I'd like to hope that someone high enough up in the legal profession
would eventually see that by stifling out small businesses in this way
they are actually depriving their profession of all the work they would
otherwise be getting by providing day-to-day legal services to those
businesses, such as providing an address for the registered office and
doing routine filing with relevant government departments.
Cheers, Brian.
--
www.xipal.eu
www.metamilk.com
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