From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-18 07:35:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.vmunix.org!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030718 X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Software Patent Concerns => New Black Markets? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:38:03 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net 1061217330 81.98.236.164 (Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:35:30 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:35:30 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41682 Date: 2003-08-18T15:38:03+01:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > The Free Software Foundation is campaigning against software patents. > The arguments are well known by now. And no one pays any attention to the FSF in Brussels or anywhere else outside of the Open Source community. Their all or nothing fanaticism makes it easy to dismiss them out of hand. > Europe does not have > software patents, but the US and Japan do. American mega-corporations > are lobbying the European Parliament to pass a law that permits > software patents [3]. Yes we do. We are just very strict about how they are issued. The new laws will just make it one hell of a lot easier to get them. Member states also have sw patenting schemes, and as I understand it the UK has them although it's difficult to apply/enforce them here. btw this would all be done and dusted and the law passed if they hadn't put it back. I can't remember the reason, but you can still make you're feelings known until September iirc. Chris