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THE Friends of the Scotsman articles also appear on our website to allow people to comment on them. Here are some of the comments made about articles that appeared in recent editions. ‘Firth transport links need exploited’ young reekie I find it astonishing that in 2013 we are still talking about this. It should have been done a long time ago. Why are we building another bridge over the Forth? Because the demand is there. Why are we not getting people over the Forth (both ways) and helping them get on with their journeys? TW Of course the Portobello to Kirkcaldy trial was a great success – it took place in the summer when people were on holiday. On the days when the weather was rubbish, I did not see any long queues. Run a trial in the winter months and see how busy it is. As far as a foot ferry from Granton is concerned, it was tried and was a disaster, and who is going to pay for the required upgrade of the sadly now dilapidated harbour? Hippohunter So, the bottom line is no-one is going to touch either the foot ferry from Granton or the hovercraft from Kirkcaldy, unless all the capital investment required is covered by grants and there is no risk of making a loss due to subsidies. Brilliant. sector areas are in a different situation. Original work is often reclassified as political policy instead of product. This rebranding of IP makes launching difficult, foolish and risks bankruptcy. If you launch and the party in power does not “like you”, you have difficulties. The private sector IP, though, is great. Still the best way to protect yourself against rebranding as well as intellectual theft, borrowing or just pilfering is to seek IP protection. Making any move without IP protection is as foolish as standing up to take a look at the other side’s trenches during a battle. Unfortunately, because of this “political situation” so much IP which could be classified as third sector is either lost, increasingly just filed abroad or published without chimerical advice. ‘our sawmillinG industry is a Global winner’ Nabodican I live on the edge of the Galloway forest park and all I see are our roads being destroyed, inconsiderate truck drivers, our water polluted, our hillsides being left like a scene from the First World War and flooding caused by the tree planting methods. richard Lionheart Interesting, we grow more trees so that the transportation of the finished article does not require CO2 output, yet we tax other industries to death so that they move production overseas, with the resultant loss of jobs here and the loss of economic benefit – and then we have to import those goods from the Far East. And all because of a fantasy need to reduce carbon, one of the most common elements in our ecosystem, which we need to grow trees and crops to support human life!