Re: FW: Lawrence Lessig: Exclusive rights to stagnate

On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:25:02PM -0800, Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
> This is a nice article. I thought I'd pass it along.... /Larry Rosen
[...]
> http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1045510979794
>
> As pressure mounts on the European Parliament to extend patent
> protection to software, a crisis is developing in US patent law that
> Europe would do well to consider. The system in America is broken - to
> the great detriment of software developers generally - and there is no
> reason to believe the Europeans could do any better.

Mr. Rosen,

In the future, please CC spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org, not spi-board
with public information that may be of interest to our membership.

This furthers two goals:
1) it helps your message reach a broader audience; and
2) it reduces the annoyance level of those on spi-board who want the
traffic level on that list to remain low.

Thanks for passing that along; I had already read it, and as usual
Professor Lessig is scintillating. :)

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