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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."

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  1. Is it me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or do I get 503 errors every time I try to log into slashdot?

  2. Don't forget Poland! by morbuz · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.youforgotpoland.com

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  3. "If he committed no crime in his home country" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    His acts may have been criminal in many countries, but that does not mean he committed the crimes in those countries. If I shoot a canadian businessman while he is in France, i've committed a crime in france, but wouldn't be extradited to Canada.

    Question with the sort of thing this case deals with is where the crime is actually committed. I think that as long as he hosted stuff on a server in Australia and he was in Australia, it does not matter which US copyrights he violated, he did not commit a crime in the US, so he shouldn't be extradited. How can he possibly break US law without being in the US or doing anything in the US?

    If the server he is using is located in the US, then maybe things are different. But just because the object was from the US doesn't mean he's broken US laws...

    Of course he can be prosecuted in Australia for breaking Australian law.... um

  4. RSS and RSS links are working by bob · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    RSS URLs e.g. http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss and http://apple.slashdot.org/apple.rss seem to work, and it seems possible to load any valid article or comments.pl or article.pl URL e.g. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=133791 or http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/22 59226&tid=155&tid=123, but the index pages e.g. http://slashdot.org or http://apple.slashdot.org all seem to be broken, I get mostly 503s and the occasional 500.

  5. All current stories from RSS, formatted nicely by bluenirve · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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  6. Re:Don't forget Poland by TheGavster · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Saddam Hussein = totalitarian dictatorship not giving anyone any rights only Saddam has power, absolute and totally corrupted power...

    Liberated Iraq = democracy offering freedom for ANYONE to build a political party and candidates to sell for market value or give away free (whatever the the party boss desires)...

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  7. Anonymous Coward wants people of Iraq to die by Joseph_Daniel_Zukige · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    fighting Americans and putting themselves back under tyranny.

  8. BSD is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Your wish is our command...