David Johnson wrote:
Which is why copyright law should not apply to s/w. There is an urgent need to have what the guys out there at WIPO call sui generis classification for software.The following is my opinion only, but it may help to explain the "why." Software is fundamentally a different class of product than a material product like a chair. Both copyright and the nature of software copying makes this so.
But the user still wants to be able to treat all products the same.I got the point, but it is not the user, but the cos. and corporates who control the legislative and treaty making process. Do not blame the poor user for the desparate attempts by the well heeled, long pursed and powerful lobbyists out there to retain control over the purse strings.
It may be irrational, but that's the way it is.
Regards,
Mahesh T Pai.
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