Re: [lojban] Re: Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe

[PILCH Hartmut <phm@A2E.DE>]

> > It is time to bring Lojban into the European patent reform discussion, as
> > I am doing below.
> 
> What can we do to help?
 
for example

- create a project "Lojban for the Patent System" that has more backing
  than just a few crazy individuals as those who wrote

    http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/egp27de.html (English version will follow)
    http://swpat.ffii.org/xatra/lojban/

- place links to the above and to   

	http://petition.eurolinux.org/  (16650 signatures by today)

  and preferably make

	http://petition.eurolinux.org/index.lb.html
 
  available.
  
- create some sets of patent claims in Lojban as an exercise and
  show what ambiguities corresponding patent claims in various
  natlangs would contain and how a LL helps.

  [ When translating patent descriptions between Japanese and English I
  always found that this is a real problem and having them in a LL
  would help not only for auto-translatability but also for
  clarity.  Patent claim sentences tend to become huge, and I know they
  would be short, elegant and fairly understandable in Lojban.  That is
  because normal languages are not made for nested structures as are
  necessary in patent claims. ] 

- keep working on Lojban parsers / glossers / translators.

- Talk to the EU Multilingual Information Society bureaucrats and get them
  to fund the "Lojban for the Patent System" project.  (They are spending
  lots of money for quite useless proprietary translation software
  projects)

-phm


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