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Patents 'biggest threat' to Linux - Torvalds
Talkback Patents and copyrights have become the main weapons used to prevent other people from sharing in the benfits of technologies without paying a hefty premium to some supposed “owner”. The lawyers have become more creative than the engineers: one...
[March 23, 2004, 10:53]
Patents 'biggest threat' to Linux - Torvalds
Talkback It has nothing to do with 'patents'. What Linus was referring to AFAIK was stuff like EOLAS and the whole "software patents" debate going on about whether algorithms themselves can be patented. SCO's issue is a 'contract' violation with IBM.
[March 23, 2004, 10:30]
"Patents are a currency". (Courtois - MS)
Talkback While not being clear of the point being made in PH's last paragraph, Patents and Patent Experts are likely too costly for many SME's whose budget and focus is not quite the same as Big Businesses. We try as a company to evolve the licensing of...
[November 30, 2006, 13:23]
Microsoft's EP(UK) patents
Talkback I agree that the area of software patents is difficult. The article is, however, misleading not merely because of the inaccurate count of patents, but because it also quotes a "leading lawyer" as saying that Microsoft's patents do not cover the UK.
[September 18, 2007, 17:03]
Patents are no place for secrets
Leader If you build something that shows that, you're violating our patents". It should not be possible to use patent law to gag legitimate research in that interest: patents are intended to put public interest and the open dissemination of information...
[March 1, 2007, 8:14]
Patents a virtue for IBM
News IBM will announce on Monday that it was the top recipient of US patents in 2002. Big Blue was awarded 3,288 patents during the past year, making it the top recipient among private sector companies for the 10th year in a row, according to the US...
[January 13, 2003, 7:44]
Patents directive wins European Parliament OK
News The Directive on the Patentability of Computer-Implemented Inventions was presented as a technical adjustment to harmonise the way patents are treated by national governments across the EU. It seeks to correct a current problem whereby patents may...
[September 24, 2003, 18:05]
Patents crucial in search battle
News With respect to AltaVista, Overture owns some of the oldest patents on Web search. Overture insiders say that when the company bought AltaVista and the Web search assets of Fast Search & Transfer, patents played a big role in the decisions.
[July 18, 2003, 12:52]
Patents could show Google's wireless intent
Talkback Surely this alteration of data content is either classed as Hacking or as normal usage so where do patents come into it. Lucky some enterprising US citizen hasn't patented talking at different frequencies in a sequence.
[March 28, 2006, 11:29]
Patents 'biggest threat' to Linux - Torvalds
News Linux creator Linus Torvalds says that nontechnical issues such as software patents constitute the single biggest threat to the future success of the open-source OS. The things that tend to worry me are software patents.
[March 23, 2004, 9:20]
Liberal Democrats accused of double standards over patents
Talkback The EP is out of order by even considering sw patents at this point. The EC could not have included the CIID as an A-item, as it claims. Due to objections by representatives of member states. The EP needs to send this back to the EC until such time...
[June 27, 2005, 14:04]
Microsoft and Skype at loggerheads over patents
News The ongoing row over software patents - as well as the role intellectual property rights (IPR) might eventually end up playing in China - surfaced again this week with telco BT seemingly ending up taking the middle ground between two names rarely...
[November 29, 2005, 9:30]
Software patents make a mockery of European ideals
Talkback Software patents do not benefit the world of technology, in any way. There is simply no need for patents in software. The copyright laws provide ample protection for software. This is wrong on so many levels.
[March 7, 2005, 20:24]
Microsoft sues TomTom over Linux patents
News In complaints filed on Wednesday before the US District Court in Washington and the International Trade Commission, Microsoft is alleging infringement of eight patents. While five of the patents relate to car-navigation systems specifically, three...
[February 26, 2009, 11:26]
Opera and MySQL battle against software patents
Talkback Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. I think that European member States should ensure, that patents do not limit or except the rights of authors in accordance to TRIPs article 13, that...
[June 28, 2005, 20:04]
Nokia specifies its 10 Apple suit patents
Blog Comment In the wacky world of American Invisible Possessions law it is actually advisable to not look for patents. If you find one that you firmly believe does not apply, but some state that is patent-troll friendly {cough}Texas{cough} decides that you do...
[October 22, 2009, 20:59]
Stallman: Why software patents are a special case
News In the third part of his speech at the Cambridge Computer Lab, Richard Stallman explains why building software is not like building physical projects, and offers two solutions to the problem of software patents: one for Europe where software...
[March 28, 2002, 10:39]
Not from software patents
Talkback Patents on software are not valid in UK - according to the UK courts. Hence Linux should not be under threats from software patents in UK. The same applies to most European countries.
[September 19, 2007, 21:42]
Microsoft to publish APIs and list patents
News Microsoft has released details of how it will comply with the 2004 EU antitrust decision, including publishing "all" details of application-programming interfaces for its high-volume products, listing its software patents that cover...
[February 21, 2008, 16:06]
Irish developers protest against patents
Talkback Back in 1991, Bill said, in an internal memo: 'If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today.A future start-up with no...
[March 18, 2005, 9:05]
