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Story: EU to throw patents in with the bath water
Posted by: Alan Fisher (Sunday 19 December 2004, 5:24 AM)
After talking to Lord Sainsbury about this very issue, he assured me in the strongest possible terms that this was mearly a "cleaning up excersise". I'm guessing he used the same measurement that Chairman Blair did when describing what the EU constitution was... Needless to say I was unimpressed to the point where I wrote him off as a stooge.
I give it 4 years before any EU software development house that hasn't been driven to the wall is owned by one of the big players from the US.
The threat to OSS is real, whilst I do not believe that this will kill it, it will I suspect mortally wound it, perhaps to the extent that it never recovers. The future just went from being orange to a very very dark grey in the software industry.
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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 -
Fine! If Lord Sainsbury is so sure that... Chris Rankin -
UNBELIEVABLE.....that's "Democracy" Anonymous
