Denmark was one of the countries that showed some resistance to the Irish proposal. Now, three weeks ago, most people in the Danish government and ministries seemed unaware of the negative impacts of software patents on interoperability. However, an effort by many to educate the legislators seems to have helped.
That said, as a leaked(?) document with the current proposed patent directive shows, Denmark unfortunately has proposed RAND licensing for interoperability-related patents (see the footnotes on page 10.)
We Danes will need to work on fixing that mistake. Hopefully other Europeans will try to get their government to change their vote. According to FFII, only ONE country needs to change its mind to shift the balance of power in the EU council!
You just purchased and installed a new program.
Then comes a dialog box with three choises:
1) Click "Accept", in which case you agree to the conditions of "our" software license.
2) Click "Cancel", in which case the software will be deleted from your hard disk.
3) Type in your credit card number to view the software license at the rate of $10 per minute.
I just noticed the site
http://www.mit.edu/~ocschwar/C_English.html
The site has perl scripts which convert between C and English. I bet such general tools can't be banned by any legislation, not even the DMCA. And so far, nobody seems to have challenged the legality of the narrative versions of DeCSS written (or spoken) in English.
If something like eng2c was included in the open source OS distributions, maybe that would make it safer to distribute software unwanted by certain corporations?
As many people have pointed out, its hard to see why Sun's driver converter should be illegal.
However, whether this is the case or not, Sun's
program might turn out to be as helpful for
Linux as it is for Solaris. It will give
hardware manufacturers even more incentive to
concentrate their driver development efforts
towards Linux.
Why don't you change your own names to some of the DeCSS code. If you can get your friends to do the same in an organized way, the DeCSS code would simply be a list of your friends.
Not too long ago, there was a discussion here on Slashdot about a person applying for a job, who almost lost it because of an erroneous credit report. I think most people agreed that a credit agency should be reliable for the information they put out, even though the employers/businesses who reject people based on the credit information CHOOSE to do so themselves. And I don't see why information about spammers should be any different. Now, if MAPS have proof that Yesmail is in the spam business, then why shouldn't they be able to tell others? On the other hand, if Yesmail is innocent, I suppose MAPS would be liable of slander?
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Denmark was one of the countries that showed some resistance to the
Irish proposal. Now, three weeks ago, most people in the Danish
government and ministries seemed unaware of the negative impacts of
software patents on interoperability. However, an effort by many to
educate the legislators seems to have helped.
That said, as a leaked(?) document
with the current proposed patent directive shows, Denmark
unfortunately has proposed RAND licensing for interoperability-related
patents (see the footnotes on page 10.)
We Danes will need to work on fixing that mistake. Hopefully other
Europeans will try to get their government to change their vote.
According to FFII, only ONE country needs to change its mind to shift
the balance of power in the EU council!
You just purchased and installed a new program. Then comes a dialog box with three choises: 1) Click "Accept", in which case you agree to the conditions of "our" software license. 2) Click "Cancel", in which case the software will be deleted from your hard disk. 3) Type in your credit card number to view the software license at the rate of $10 per minute.
I just noticed the site
http://www.mit.edu/~ocschwar/C_English.html
The site has perl scripts which convert between C and English. I bet such general tools can't be banned by any legislation, not even the DMCA. And so far, nobody seems to have challenged the legality of the narrative versions of DeCSS written (or spoken) in English.
If something like eng2c was included in the open source OS distributions, maybe that would make it safer to distribute software unwanted by certain corporations?
As many people have pointed out, its hard to see why Sun's driver converter should be illegal. However, whether this is the case or not, Sun's program might turn out to be as helpful for Linux as it is for Solaris. It will give hardware manufacturers even more incentive to concentrate their driver development efforts towards Linux.
Why don't you change your own names to some of the DeCSS code. If you can get your friends to do the same in an organized way, the DeCSS code would simply be a list of your friends.
Not too long ago, there was a discussion here on Slashdot about a person applying for a job, who almost lost it because of an erroneous credit report. I think most people agreed that a credit agency should be reliable for the information they put out, even though the employers/businesses who reject people based on the credit information CHOOSE to do so themselves. And I don't see why information about spammers should be any different. Now, if MAPS have proof that Yesmail is in the spam business, then why shouldn't they be able to tell others? On the other hand, if Yesmail is innocent, I suppose MAPS would be liable of slander?