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Software patent directive adopted
Talkback I'm dismayed at the cretinous behaviour of the European commission and council in allowing the software patent directive to be adopted in it's current form. Where next for the opposition to the software patent directive?
[March 7, 2005, 23:21]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback €C=U$A=$hit => Software patents will be adopted
[March 7, 2005, 12:20]
Software patent directive adopted
News The European Council adopted the software patent directive on Monday, despite requests from Denmark, Poland and Portugal to reject the directive. An EU Council spokeswoman said on Monday morning that the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive...
[March 7, 2005, 9:45]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback I hope this isn't adopted, because this not only means that us Linux users and developers are going to go underground, but it means that costs will rise, computer companies will shut down, people will be made redundant, and we'll all be plagued...
[June 21, 2005, 8:41]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Software patents are long overdue. The reason the US has such a healthy software industry is in part due to the protection that patents afford companies who invest in software production. Creating software is a labour intensive (and therefore...
[March 7, 2005, 12:21]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback This is a disaster. Not only software patents are a major obstacle to the software industry, but it also is a serious action against democracy. I can't believe what the EC has done, reverting the original directive sent from the parliament, trying...
[March 7, 2005, 15:56]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Marketing directors live off the grabbing of ideas and emotions we all have and putting some kind of brand close to them and leveraging that brand's mediatic power to bombard us back with their own commercially bent view of our common ideas and...
[March 7, 2005, 17:07]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Isn't it that the EU commission has chosen Microsoft and US software companies against European companies because they want to eradicate free software (and at last the possibility for end users to control their PC) ?
[March 7, 2005, 17:21]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Large organisations usually end up losing their customers because they get fat and boring - not anymore - they will now be able to use the law to stifle competion - so we had better prepare ourselves for life in a boring world.
[March 7, 2005, 17:44]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback OSS development is now going to be spearheaded in the third world.
[March 7, 2005, 12:16]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback I really, really wonder how can someone be so ignorant as to say that patents aim at helping innovation. Come on, please, cite ONE thing that doesn't rely on past ideas, existing practices, previous work.
[March 7, 2005, 22:12]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback I have to say that I really wonder what's happening with the EC, and that's more than a 'sad' piece of news for me. For me, it's simply unpossible that such a threat would come to Europe. I would do anything legal to fight against it.
[March 13, 2005, 18:10]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback When something so obviously undemocratic and corrupt as this happens it weakens and demeans Europe. It makes me feel ill to think that the vested interests of a handful of obscenely wealthy businessmen have so easily been allowed to effectively...
[March 7, 2005, 22:33]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback English? Then write to your MEP(s) at writetothem.com; see if you can drum up some political support - I know it seems like a lost cause but everything's worth a fight.
[March 7, 2005, 22:52]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Bad things happen when good people do nothing. Problem with this issue is that the average Joe Blow not working in the industry will not comprehend what implications this really has. Imagine a plumber not being able to use a clockwise turn with his...
[March 7, 2005, 23:22]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Ah yes, I can see it now.coding innovation going underground, with more police resource allocated to stamping out the terrible crime, that is anyone trying to come up with an original idea. I mean come on.how dare you be innovative.
[March 7, 2005, 14:57]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback I have just listend to the Danish "Økonomiminister" (minister of economy) Bendt Bendtsen statement. He did not ask for a remowal of the software patent directive from the A-list. He just called for it to be optained on the B-list.
[March 7, 2005, 23:28]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback My laywers and lobbiests are still busy trying to get a law adopted that'll declare human voice as a musical instrument as well. Why not music patents? Stop the music. I've just patented the concept of making music so any music instrument making a...
[March 7, 2005, 23:37]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback This is sad and bet you money that big software companies have been greasing palms to get this through any way they can, all for the glory of their wallets of course.
[March 8, 2005, 0:25]
