[A2k] Proposals for the section of the Paris Accord on Software

[Steve Ediger]

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Hi,  This is my first post in this group, although I've been lurking for
some time.  I don't get a chance to read all of the comments  everyday, so
forgive me if this post is missing some background information.  Here is my
comment:

2.  Of course Microsoft is the company that we most identify software
monopoly with in this time.  However, prior to them, it was IBM.  If not
them, it would be someone else, like Oracle for instance.  This point might
be stronger if it were worded more generically.  "Any one or small number of
company's(ies') monopoloy..."

Regards,

Steve Ediger


On 6/4/06, James Love <james.love@cptech.org> wrote:
>
> This is just to get the discussion on software started....jl
>
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> Proposals for the section of the Paris Accord on Software
>
> 1. Concentration of ownership and control of software operating
> systems and applications presents risks and dangers to programmers
> and users.
>
> 2.  Microsoft's monopoly in terms of PC operating systems and office
> productivity applications harms users and programmers, and must be
> addressed by governments, programmers and purchasers of software.
>
> 3.  Programmers of software need access to certain interface data, in
> order to design products that work with other products.
>
> 4.  Some high quality software products, standards, and protocols,
> can and will be produced without regard to ownership or control of
> software code, or any expectation of remuneration or other pecuniary
> reward from the sale or licensing of the code.   Other important
> software products, standards and protocols are unlikely to be
> produced without an expectation of economic rewards from the sale or
> licensing of the code.
>
> 5.  Consumers agree that infringement of software applications by
> undermines economic incentives for firms to employ programmers to
> develop new products.  Programmers agree that excessive prices for
> software programs contribute to infringement of software copyrights.
>
> 6.  Commercial software products should not be designed to lock-in
> users to particular vendors.
>
> 7.  Business models for software development should reward
> programmers for making users better off, and not reward programmers
> or software publishers for anticompetitive and anti-consumer practices.
>
> 8.  Open document formats are essential for the development of a
> competitive and open software industry.
>
> 9.  Users and programmers should lobby large buyers of software to
> demand open document formats, and other measures that promote
> interoperability.
>
> 10.  Proprietary technologies that undermine the World Wide Web
> should be discouraged.
>
> 11.  Experience has shown that the costs of extending patent
> protection to software exceed the benefits.
>
>
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Steve Ediger