-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/13/10 18:24 , Kevin Wright wrote: > I'd like to imagine that this will somehow spark a "serious" > debate on the value of software patents, though I doubt that very > much. It's hard to imagine any lawyer working for such a cause that > would, ultimately, reduce the future need for lawyers. In a country > where 1 in every 300 people is a lawyer (the highest of any country > in the world, I believe), they have a vested interest in > maintaining the status quo :) The number I know for my country is 1:294 (3.4 every 1000 inhabitants), so we're at the same level. Indeed the thing that I find most annoying is that technology is made by engineers / computer scientists, but lawyers are building superstructures on it from which they make much more money than us. Of course, the inflation of lawyers is also a problem for other things than technology. But we must not be so pessimistic, after all in the past even kings conceded the constitutions...
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