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Story: Software patents make a mockery of European ideals
Posted by: Arthur B. (Monday 7 March 2005, 11:49 PM)
If the EP won't sweep this from the table then the EU will have given birth to a new economic world power:
Japan, China, Korea, India, etc.
Because in case someone hasn't figured it out yet. We live in an information age. And information needs need innovative software. With software patents in the hands of the powerfull few however only their economic business rules will govern how innovative EU software is allowed to be.
Simply put: as long as we can be made to pay for crappy software that is exactly what we'll be allowed to do. Over and over again.
As for the EU citizens, they can watch their (tax) money, ideas, innovations, top talent, etc ship out either to the West or the East.
The "Lisbon Agenda" is clearly without practical vision. Quote: "the EU will become the world's most competitive and dynamic knowledge-driven economy by 2010". Yeah right, how do you compete against thousands and thousands of software patents that last decades? Waive with your enormously expensive software patent (that somehow can't be dragged through court for years by laywers that try to dispute it) of your own?
Hey you, bully across the street with fourty experienced armed free cage fighters at your side. Look, I've got a tooth pick, you better watch out for me. I'm sure the bully will allow the tooth pick man to become something he will be worried about given the good sport he's been all his life. Not.
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Story: Software patents make a mockery of European ideals
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Henceforth, I have no faith in Europe. At every vo... Chris Rankin -
The UK has always been an island in more than... ignace.saenen -
While I appreciate that the UK governmen... Chris Rankin -
Where do I register to vote for who sits... Chris Rankin
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Chris , you elected part of the cou... Alban Browaeys -
Here's why we should ALL vote... Anonymous
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Chris,
you should note that the only ones wh... Anonymous
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Yes, all British should vote for MORE EuropeanUnio... Anders
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"It's said of newspapers that you only know how ba... P.L.Hayes
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Software patents do not benefit the world of techn... Squire
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I just did it, sent my thoughts to as many elected... Samuel
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> Where do I register to vote for who sits on the... Anders
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Hmm, maybe I'm confusing the Council with the... Chris Rankin
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If the EP won't sweep this from the table then the... Arthur B. -
It was good while it lasted.
May you rest in peace... Anonymous
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Well... we should all write our MEPs, asking why t... Anonymous
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I actually bumped into my local MP on the str... NJ
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For a more balanced opinion...
Try reading the BBC... Andrew
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Andrew, the BBC piece you point to is a news... Matt Loney
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Matt - that link is broken (somehow apt!... Jezter~
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What a sham this democracy of EU ha... RCS
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We (EEC) give Bill Gates et al grief - then fall l... Brian Walton
