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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'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 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 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 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 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 Mr Ryan - You are a marketing director. How long is it since you made your living as a programmer, if ever? Please, in future do not get involved in any debates related to programming in Europe. The majority of computer experts in Europe who are...
[March 7, 2005, 15:21]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Mr Anonymous Programmer: "unabashed plagiarism" is already protected against by global copyright laws. If you can point to a single piece of open source software that infringes someone else's copyrights then by all means bring this to that project...
[March 9, 2005, 12:05]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback To clueless Anonymous Programmer. This will not help the genuine hardworking programmers because they don't have 50K lying around to aquire a software patent and they certainly don't have 500K lying around to keep the laywers of their back.
[March 8, 2005, 20:39]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Very good decision.This will help the genuine, hardworking programmers and software companies who have been in the forefront of all innovations till date to clearly and proudly stand out from the crowd of unruly loud mouthed copycats.
[March 8, 2005, 17:54]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Hey.at least you'll get a chance to vote on the new constitution. As a Swedish citizen, I have no say in the matter (since no referendum will be held in Sweden). To all of you who get the opportunity - please, to ensure a competitive, non-statist...
[March 8, 2005, 15:06]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Until yesterday I was inclined to vote in favour for the European constitution in the upcoming Dutch referendum. Today, realising the foolishness of my naive confidence in European democracy, I am sure to vote against it and to convince as many...
[March 8, 2005, 10:47]
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 Outrage! Mr Martin Ryan, before claiming the US and Japan have a "healty" software industry, please take a look at all the lawsuits involving software patants, this being one of the latest: http://www.pat-rights.com/nsD03_01_2005_T1235.htm more on...
[March 8, 2005, 8:02]
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 Completly shamefull, an open attack on democracy. This will have an effect on the Constitutional Treaty. I cannot, and will not, vote for a Constitution that gives more power to a Concil and a Commission that doesn't represent me!
[March 7, 2005, 10:56]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Any proponent of software patenting under the justification of "time and money spent" is a standing example for the definition of "pigopolist". Copyright protected software perfectly adequately (as it did for mentally, time consuming and, sometimes...
[March 8, 2005, 3:09]
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]
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]
