[ILUG] Re: ILUG sends s/w patents briefing document to Irish MEPs

[Paul O'Malley]

Gavin McCullagh wrote:

>Hi,
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>Joseph Kiniry wrote:
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>>On 21 Mar, 2005, at 21:03, Paul O'Malley wrote:
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>>>Joseph Kiniry wrote:
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>>>>Also, how often do you believe that serious modern "for profit" 
>>>>software development does not require significant capital?
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>>>I believe the following to be examples of serious modern and for 
>>>profit software development.
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>>>(A) Iona
>>>(B) Mandrakesoft
>>>(C) Novell/SuSE
>>>(D) Redhat
>>>(E) Sage (not the system administrators guild :))
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>>Ok.  But you still did not answer the question.  You gave me a list of 
>>some companies, some of which focus on FOSS-based technologies, and 
>>others which to my knowledge do not.
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>>Are you suggesting that none of these companies required significant 
>>capital to develop the software that is the core of their businesses?
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>I think what Paul is pointing out is that while these companies do require
>significant capital they do not require software patents to recoup/justify
>it.  Your point (as I understood it, please correct) was that software
>patents are needed to recoup/justify this capital.  The above companies
>seem to be some of many contradictory examples.
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>Gavin
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They are just companies that use large amounts of capital. They do not 
need patents to make the majority of business happen, you need a 
feasible economic model and customers. Some may be in possession of 
patents but most of their business is in the delivery of customer 
requirements.

That is all.

Regards,

Paul