An owner of a small software company explains that the game of software patentability would force him to apply for thousands of patents per year and put him at great legal risks of being sued by others. It would, due to massive rejection by the software community, not enjoy any moral support, thus giving rise to a rampant culture of piracy, which again is detrimental to software companies.

auteur: Pierre Clerc Date of Submission: 2000 fichiers: pclerc.pdf et copie locale