So if there are no software patents in EU (and hopefully never will be), what can hinder EU to use standards that are presumambly encumbered with software patents?
Allthough this might be true for some people it certainly isn't true for me and alot of people that I know in the IT business. I have been a "hacker" since I was 11 when I got my first vic-20. Now some 20 years later I'm so bored with my IT work that I have totally switched to do something completely different, working at the butchers. Better salary, less stress and a lot more fun.
Anyway, the thing I *hate* about the IT industry is the way that it has taken all of the fun and creativity out of computers. It makes me feel more like a worker in some mass production plant rather then making me use my brain and figure out stuff and have fun while I do that.
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Since when did EU adapt software patents?
So if there are no software patents in EU (and hopefully never will be), what can hinder EU to use standards that are presumambly encumbered with software patents?
Allthough this might be true for some people it certainly isn't true for me and alot of people that I know in the IT business. I have been a "hacker" since I was 11 when I got my first vic-20. Now some 20 years later I'm so bored with my IT work that I have totally switched to do something completely different, working at the butchers. Better salary, less stress and a lot more fun.
Anyway, the thing I *hate* about the IT industry is the way that it has taken all of the fun and creativity out of computers. It makes me feel more like a worker in some mass production plant rather then making me use my brain and figure out stuff and have fun while I do that.