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Story: Software patent directive adopted
Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 7 March 2005, 2:09 PM)
We all know that big business and government are running hand-in-hand and simply ignoring everything and everyone to impose the will of lobbyists and businesses upon us all.
It's a worldwide phenomenon with self-serving politicians and self-rewarding business leaders trying to take as much as they can get before retiring early and leaving the world a far worse off place than they found it.
Now we have the giant of computing forgetting that their industry is built on the inventions of men from Babbage to Turing and so many others, who gave their discoveries and inventions to the world - these companies are patenting the most trivial of work. If any of the fields original pioneers had patented everything the did, there would be no IBMs or Microsofts to lobby - they would be tiny companies living of what they can make in between the licensing fees of a thousand patents.
It's a joke and the EU politicians make me sick. I can't wait for the revolution, where these idle fools are swinging from lamposts - especially Glenys Kinnock MEP, she won't be ignoring my concerns and sending out stock party line responses then!
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Story: Software patent directive adopted
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I do hope this is an error, and wishful thinking f... Patrick Sinz -
Any hope we might have had for tech innovatio... NJ -
This is ill news indeed...
And to think I adm... Pablo Santos
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Watch yourself Microsoft! You have just unleashed... ricardo
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With one hand they fine Microsoft 0.5 billion poun... Steve J
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I have just listend to the Danish "Økonomimin... Michael Reib
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A mistake? Not just developers, any computer-usin... Olav Petri
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Completly shamefull, an open attack on democracy.... Ricardo Botelho de Sousa
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Not just the fury of opensource, the fury of the f... Anonymous
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sad day. need a demonstration, our contempt and be... Anonymous
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OSS development is now going to be spearheaded in... Bill Franklin
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€C=U$A=$hit => Software patents will be adopted Anonymous
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Software patents are long overdue. The reason the... Martin Ryan
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Software development is an iterative process... Anonymous
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Mr. Ryan.
By the same logic; creating a book... Gerard ter Beke
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... but their work is fully protected by the... Geert Bevin
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The sheer ignorance of using US patent protec... Marcus Widerberg
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Mr Ryan...Its the fact that this ruling allow... Yeah
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Any proponent of software patenting under the... Jezter~
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I hope this isn't adopted, because this... Jamie -
Outrage!!
Mr Martin Ryan, before claiming the... CD
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Let's not get overexcited - all this means is that... James Cross
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We all know that big business and government are r... Anonymous -
This is a disaster.
Not only software patents... Ernesto Alvarez
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Money beats democracy, hands down. Sad. Marek Baczynski
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I think I'll quit. Maybe I'll retrain as lumberjac... Anonymous
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Can anybody explain to me how it is possible that,... ignace saenen
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Ah yes, I can see it now...coding innovation going... Anonymous
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Mr Ryan - You are a marketing director.
How long i... Anonymous
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Very good decision.This will help the genuine... Anonymous
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To clueless Anonymous Programmer.
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Mr Anonymous Programmer: "unabashed plag... Chris Rankin
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I have to say that I really wonder... Anonymous
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Marketing directors live off the grabbing of ideas... Anonymous
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Isn't it that the EU commission has chosen Mi... Gaia
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Large organisations usually end up losing their cu... A Harding
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I'm dismayed at the cretinous behaviour of th... Anonymous
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What the hell are they thinkng? Anonymous
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I really, really wonder how can someone be so... The Mitch
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Bad things happen when good people do nothing... Anonymous
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When something so obviously undemocratic and corru... Mark
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English? Then write to your MEP(s) at writetothem.... Rob
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Why not music patents?
Stop the music. I've just p... Arthur B.
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This is sad and bet you money that big software co... Josh
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Until yesterday I was inclined to vote in favour... Jan Mulder
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Hey.. at least you'll get a chance to vote on... Z
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