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EU SOFTWARE PATENTS!
anphanax:
It's the:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Not the:
UNITED STATES OF THE DOLLAR
I understand your symbolism, but still, other countries are a lot like ours. I think there are more important things to do in this world besides bash the US. (feed starving people, find more ways to help with the AIDs issues in africa, find some way to make peace in iraq, etc)
anphanax:
Who owns the patents to these things?
FAT,FAT32,Scroll bars,Windows,Buttons,Textboxes,Comboboxes,Sliders,Socket Technology,Listboxes,Desktop,HTTP,HTTPS,FTP,TELNET,SSH,SSL,Web Browsers, The Word Processors, The Paint Utility, etc...........
You aren't serious about all THESE things are you?
suselinux:
quote:Originally posted by anphanax:
It's the:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Not the:
UNITED STATES OF THE DOLLAR
I understand your symbolism, but still, other countries are a lot like ours. I think there are more important things to do in this world besides bash the US. (feed starving people, find more ways to help with the AIDs issues in africa, find some way to make peace in iraq, etc)
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Why dosen't the states stop bashing other countries and try
feed starving people, find more ways to help with the AIDs issues in africa, find some way to make peace in iraq, etc
Faust:
quote:It has been suggested that the Parliament's report will for the first time allow the patentability of computer-implemented inventions. This is simply not true.
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Yes this isn't "new" but it is a strong extension of the current laws. If it's not new or an extension there would be no sense in passing it. (ie it would be a non bill.)
quote:the patentability of business methods; algorithms; and mathematical methods.
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edit : my bad misunderstood the email. she isn't supporting patenting of mathematical methods or business processes, and claims to have put in provisions against that.
quote:Moreover I have added a requirement for a technical contribution in order to ensure that the mere use of a computer does not lead to a patent being granted.
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Technical contribution? This just means that if you worked on something you get to stop all the heathen masses from daring to a:use it to better themselves or b:make their own version. A free market system relies upon competition, and this undermines the basis of these freedoms.
quote:Furthermore, the amended directive contains new provisions on decompilation that will assist software developers.
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Considering the guy who worked out how to "decode" DVD's got put in jail for working out how to read DVD's that he owned, I hope that she means provisions in favor of decompilation - from this the provisions could be against decompilation. (Software developers from a suit probably means "the guys who are applying for the patent." The people that wrote the original encoding scheme for DVD's are after all software developers.)
quote:greater degree of legal certainty in the field of patentability of computer-implemented inventions.
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FUD. Legal certainty is used whenever someone wants to claim "this area is legally uncertain! lets make it certain by dropping a draconian law on it!"
quote:Indeed recently, a small ten-person company in an economic black-spot in the UK granted a licence to a US multinational for its voice recognition software patents. Without European patent protection in this field, the small company could have found itself in the perverse situation whereby its R&D efforts and investment would simply have been taken by a large multinational company, who, with its team of patent lawyers, would have filed a patent on this invention. The EU company could have been faced subsequently with patent infringement proceedings.
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Very big FUD. Notice the amnount of "could haves" and the fact that she has no real prior incidents of this occuring to back up her case?
quote:Some lobbyists would like us to believe that having no patents is an option - it is not. No patents would put EU software developers at a severe disadvantage in the global market place, and would hand over the monopoly on patents to multinational companies.
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"Monopolies are OK provided were in on it"
quote:At a time when many of our traditional industries are migrating to Asia and when Europe needs increasingly to rely on its inventiveness to reap rewards, it is important to have the option of the revenue secured by patents and the licensing out of computer-implemented technologies.[/quote[
Note there is no consideration of the customer here, merely of "revenue."
--- Quote ---Software development is a major European industry. In 1998 alone the value of the EU software market was
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suselinux:
Hey Faust, anything like this in Australia
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