Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

More on the Microsoft v. EU Decision on Software Patents

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the settled-for-now dept.

bollow (a) NoLockIn writes "As pointed out on Groklaw, Microsoft has told the EU's Court of First Instance that "certain of the communications protocols that the Commission requires it to provide are covered by patents or patent applications and that it intends to file, before June 2005, a large number of patent applications." In view of this, Poland's courageous action against software patents is a great relief. There's an online thank-you letter for Poland with already over 10000 signatures."

2 of 445 comments (clear)

  1. Re:/. /.ed? by kesuki · · Score: 4, Funny

    It would take a lot to bring down /. though.
    Not really a simple "shutdown -h now" would do it.

    --
    https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
  2. Re:Dammit by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

    > You think that's bad? Try working at an isp and have people yelling at you and blaming you for
    > breaking hotmail ;).
    >
    > ahh the joys of the internet. bx

    You too, huh? I even get the odd like "Why did the Internet screw up Word?" or my ever favorite "The Internet caused my printer to stop working, so when can you fix it?"

    --
    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.