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Story: EU to throw patents in with the bath water
Posted by: P.L.Hayes (Friday 17 December 2004, 9:37 PM)
"Many of the people in the software industry have slightly got their blinkers on, and don't realise they are part of the larger industry that the patent system has to protect", said Peter Hayward of the UKPO.
They used to tell us that patents would be good for us, we just didn't understand.
Now apparently it is our duty to die for the greater good of the mobile phone manufacturers who 'need' software patents because...
ftp://ftp.phoneforge.net/phone_clones/nokia/nokia_6170.tar.gz
Lions led by donkeys, yet again.
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Story: EU to throw patents in with the bath water
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I hope we (EU) don't make the mistake of allowing... samuel -
Steve Probert says:
"It's a heck of a lot easier t... Jonas Maebe
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"Many of the people in the software industry... P.L.Hayes -
Having a legal framework to declare a patent... Chris Rankin
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What politicians fail to understand time and time... Arthur B.
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IBM is so two-faced. On one hand they pretend... James
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I work for a small software vendor/developer. We s... Roderick Klein
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After talking to Lord Sainsbury about this ve... Alan Fisher
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Fine! If Lord Sainsbury is so sure that... Chris Rankin -
UNBELIEVABLE.....that's "Democracy" Anonymous
