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EU parliament demands patent restart
Talkback In 1991 Bill Gates said: "If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.
[February 7, 2005, 2:25]
EU parliament demands patent restart
Talkback Lets Just Break Our Computers and send all our Money to Microsoft (yearly), oh except for the the dole money we'll need for British programmers. Why Innovate when you can Stagnate.
[February 7, 2005, 2:07]
EU software patents: the lesson of victory
Talkback Nice leader, I think we should give much credit to the internet too. Patented! But I would like firms like IBM, Nokia, Siemens etc.who lobby for software patens step out into the open in public and show us their motives and their level of "logic...
[February 6, 2005, 5:59]
Microsoft's EU proposal is monstrous, says Samba
Talkback Thanks for your comments Thomas. In the interview Jeremy Allison said to me that political lobbying may not help as it is a legal rather than political issue. But, if you do want to try something it may be worth contacting either your local MEP or...
[February 5, 2005, 11:58]
Microsoft ready to respond to EU charges
News In addition to the EU inquiry, Microsoft still faces legal action from Sun Microsystems and other private antitrust suits. Microsoft plans in the coming weeks to file a written response to European Union charges that it abused its monopoly in the...
[September 30, 2003, 8:40]
EU data retention laws face rough ride
Talkback Apart from the privacy issues this will raise (eg: anybody interested in having their full communication logs available to administrator so and so looking for extra money? storing huge amounts of data costs real money.
[June 2, 2005, 21:57]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback Who took which decision? Who is the anonymous MEP quoted in this article? And how does this MEP explain what happened on the 7th? Did Denmark ask for reopening of negotiations or did it not? Can the EP answer the 23 questions that we have asked the...
[April 1, 2005, 2:31]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback It is interesting to see that European democracy is no better than that of India or even Malaysia. If not worse.
[April 1, 2005, 3:45]
Microsoft's EU proposal is monstrous, says Samba
Talkback The problem with Samba is that it is about 2.5 times faster than the MS implementation and that is simply too much for MS.
[February 5, 2005, 5:51]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback There is an old saying in Government that the second pupose of the bureaucracy is to employ those who cannot find a real job. The first is to stop the wheels of government turning so fast that they avoid the real wants of the tax payer.
[April 1, 2005, 8:14]
Microsoft's EU proposal is monstrous, says Samba
Talkback Perhaps someday clueless politicians and judges will learn how to deal with single minded companies like Microsoft.
[February 4, 2005, 22:37]
EU Parliament forgives Council for adopting patent directive
Talkback The European Parliament spokesman quoted in the article is not an MEP - he is the spokesman for the JURI committee. Thanks for your comments.
[April 1, 2005, 9:49]
High noon for Microsoft in EU battle
Talkback Microsoft was convicted and didn't comply. It's a simple as that. If it's ok in your eyes that overseas companies can write their own laws in Europa and basicly do as they please then I understand why you can't see a problem with packaged deals...
[June 1, 2005, 21:54]
US hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
News The EFF is using the Freedom of Information Act to try and find out how EU passenger data transferred to the US is retained, secured, used, disclosed to other entities, and combined with other information.
[November 23, 2006, 16:26]
EU parliament demands patent restart
Talkback Do patents threaten your business? pages) http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/other/0,39020682,39186357,00.htm
[February 4, 2005, 21:56]
EU 'could force sub-standard Windows' - Microsoft
Talkback Only a monopoly can comfortably make such an indirect threat to a Union that is larger than the US. Well its good to see that Microsoft now has competition, even if the company still acts as if it does not.
[November 13, 2003, 16:42]
EU 'could force sub-standard Windows' - Microsoft
Talkback I totally disagree with this law suit and the comments my firend made about "MS monopoly has to and will be broken". What MS is doing is its job, I give you somethin to use and somethin extra with it.
[November 14, 2003, 13:59]
EU 'could force sub-standard Windows' - Microsoft
Talkback With all the patches and Microsofts inability to go more than a week without patching a new product are we not already being sold an inferior product. If the product was stable then MS would have all the other OS beaten hands down.
[November 14, 2003, 17:06]
EU parliament demands patent restart
Talkback Perhaps I didn't make myself clear. No software patent legislation. Ever. Because there's simply no need for it and even a 'limited' version of software patent legislation would still be nursed into a big monster by those well funded lobbyists and...
[February 4, 2005, 21:47]
EU deepens its probe into Oracle-Sun deal
News EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes said that European authorities had an obligation to make sure that the acquisition would not lead to reduced customer choice or higher prices. The European Commission has launched an in-depth investigation...
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