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Software Patent Demonstrations Taking Off
feklee writes "The preparations for the
rally against software patents
on Wednesday are running at full speed. Thanks to announcements in DWN, on KDE, in the Register, and
elsewhere, the Online Demo has already
more than 600 participants such as Savannah
and KDE.de. Now, what about your project?"
And flagboy writes "A group of economists from Europe and the U.S. specialising in patent questions have published a letter to members of the European Parliament calling on them to reject the proposal, accompanied by an analytical paper which casts severe doubts on the reasoning behind the directive and on the methods employed by its proponents." Here's the FFII Press Release.
How many cases of patent cases has there really been throughout the years? In comparisons with the number of patents created each year... almost none. My advice is, don't care. Use the patents as you please... The probability of beeing f***ed over by the legal system is virtually zero.
Never even heard of this patent issue. I followed all the links and nothing really told me why I shouldn't like this thingamajig they're doing. So....tell me...what are people protesting against?
Karma: -2^0.5 . Mainly due to the imbibing of dihydrogen monoxide
I didn't think it was possible, but there's a country that has even LESS balls than the US. Does Britain even have elections any more? Maybe the British supreme court picks the parliment, just like the US supreme courts picks the president now. :P
No, I kid. But you should all read "Stupid White Men", by Michael Moore.