Now the European patent movement wants to change the law so as to legalise this practise. Programmers are to lose their freedom of expression and the copyright on their original work. Citizens are to be barred from independently developping their preferred forms of communication. Now the European patent movement wants to change the law so as to legalise this practise. Programmers are to lose their freedom of expression and the copyright on their original work.
Citizens are to be barred from independently developping their preferred forms of communication.
F r Hartgesottene. The history of the patent system can be described as a victorious movement of lawyers against economists. But as long as patentable inventions were confined to the realm of applied natural science and only industrially manufactured material objects were monopolised, the restrictions on freedom and anti-competitive effects of these monopolies still seemed justifiable in view of the costs incurred by the inventors.