Une longue serie d'articles forts interessants sur le sujet regroupés ici :
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/intel.jsp En particulier par Ben Klemens les deux derniers de juillet / aout sont tres bien construits a mon avis : "Software Patents Don't Compute - No clear boundary between math and software exists" http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=i070305 << [...] The courts failed to review the mathematics literature and as a result made several vain attempts to reinvent the wheel. Software and lambda calculus are in the same equivalence class, which means any law that allows software to be patentable allows the patenting of the evaluation of certain mathematical expressions. But, fundamentally, if we are to disallow the patenting of pure scientific and mathematical discoveries to foster basic research and innovation, the only way to do so is to disallow the patenting of the states to which state machines may be set—that is, to abolish software patents. >> "New legal code - Copyrights should replace software patents" http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/careers/careerstemplate.jsp?ArticleId=i080205 << [...] Because it doesn't offer a patent's monopoly protection, a copyright is, in some ways, weaker protection than a patent, but is there any evidence that innovation would be harmed without patent protection? Before the In re Alappat ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit in July 1994, software was effectively protected only by copyright; yet it would be difficult to claim that before 1994 the IT industry was short on innovation. [...] >> Laurent _______________________________________________ Liste de discussion FSF France. http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-france
