Digital Copyright Canada

An article Patents and the Penguin quotes me a few times. The quote that the paper starts with has also been taken out of context to suggest that I support information process patents. I believe that information process patents are something which the economy needs to be protected from. The sooner we demystify the computer and stop offering patents on information processes executed by a computer that we never would if executed by the human brain (acts of parliament and other policy) the quicker we can recover from this bad public policy.

I don't agree with the author on many points, and he uses language in entirely different ways than I do. One source of confusion is whether information process patents have anything to do with whether software is proprietary/"public domain", commercial/non-commercial or "software manufacturing"/FLOSS. The question for me is whether policy makers will continue supporting bad policy that has few who gain and the vast majority of the economy loosing.