Note the the legal action (attacking only one patent) is the only part of game. The emphasis is
on politics.
Eg this Wednesday you are invited to a
Parliamentary Evening in Berlin. Other events at Paris, Brussels (FOSDEM),Leuven (yet another conference), Rome, Stockholm etc can be found via the calendar at the events page.
National mailing lists (meet your reps before European Parliament elections in June!) can be subscribed via aktiv.ffii.org.
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Id you know a European language it is very helpful if you could translate part of the thing on Sunday. (Erik needs this by monday morning. There are persons working on it, help is needed help for it, subscribe to the translations
mailing list and the info page for more info).
Once doing that whetted your appetite for coming
to Strasbourg (there is a demo),
help is also appreciated of distributing this inside the parliament (write
to europarl ATt ffii DOtT org or call +49-174-7313590, sleeping between 1 am and 9 am CET).
Also note that before there are some supporting events in Greece, Stuttgart and Berlin.
IIRC political discourse (be it on slashdot or in an election) was meant to be about things that matter? This comprises technology and its economic/social implications.
Moreover, Lochner-Fischer (the candidate who had printed the poster) actually has been a C application programmer, so she understands the issue and her stance in this is credible (I also saw her personally).
For bipartisan balance: Former Fortran programmer posing with Jon Maddog Hall, also a good thing.
Yes. I wouldn't say that generally any test (same applicable for university diplomas) necessarily certifies
very much but I found it very instructive (and in the long run rewarding) to spare some days for "purposeless" (as opposed to: "I have to get that damn thing running now")
browsing through some HOWTOs and manpages.
The readable (exception: objective 2) O'Reilly book on Level I could serve as course material for any linux instructors.
Level II is calling for beta testers at the moment.
As of today, computer programs are patentable in US, China, Japan, Australia.
Despite what many patent attorneys claim, according the law (Art 52 EPC), computer programs (which are not part of a hardware machine) are not patentable in the European Community (nor India).
However, in Europe courts and the EPO revision boards have frequently yielded to patent applicants
desires, so that legal text and patent grant practice and jurisdiction have been in dischord in many
EU countries (less so in France or UK, more so in
Germany).
The European Commission (as well as the UKPTO, see learned from mickwd's posting) is currently doing a
revision of the EU patent law and till 15 Dec 2000,
inviting comments on patentability of software.
With legal spirit and practice being divided, the
decision may either widen or narrow to the distance to US/AU/JP/ZH (or IN, on the other hand).
If you do have an opinion the road EU should take,
please respond to this invitation. You also might
consider supporting petition.eurolinux.org
or freepatents.org.
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Eg this Wednesday you are invited to a Parliamentary Evening in Berlin. Other events at Paris, Brussels (FOSDEM),Leuven (yet another conference), Rome, Stockholm etc can be found via the calendar at the events page.
National mailing lists (meet your reps before European Parliament elections in June!) can be subscribed via aktiv.ffii.org.
forgot the translation info page url (asking for your cooperation):h eAnalysis
wiki.ael.be/index.php/TranslatingT
Id you know a European language it is very helpful if you could translate part of the thing on Sunday. (Erik needs this by monday morning. There are persons working on it, help is needed help for it, subscribe to the translations mailing list and the info page for more info).
Once doing that whetted your appetite for coming to Strasbourg (there is a demo), help is also appreciated of distributing this inside the parliament (write to europarl ATt ffii DOtT org or call +49-174-7313590, sleeping between 1 am and 9 am CET).
Also note that before there are some supporting events in Greece, Stuttgart and Berlin.
How about this one?
Here is a sample page http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/ReadyToPlug
This comprises technology and its economic/social
implications.
Moreover, Lochner-Fischer (the candidate who had
printed the poster) actually has been a C application
programmer, so she understands the issue and her
stance in this is credible (I also saw her personally).
For bipartisan balance:
Former Fortran programmer posing with Jon Maddog Hall, also a good thing.
For a documentation of EPO, see
http://swpat.ffii.org/players/epo/
and tell us if anything in there is false or
needs to be supplemented.
The readable (exception: objective 2) O'Reilly book on Level I could serve as course material for any linux instructors.
Level II is calling for beta testers at the moment.
the entry at linuxtoday.com is clearer.
Despite what many patent attorneys claim, according the law (Art 52 EPC), computer programs (which are not part of a hardware machine) are not patentable in the European Community (nor India).
However, in Europe courts and the EPO revision boards have frequently yielded to patent applicants desires, so that legal text and patent grant practice and jurisdiction have been in dischord in many EU countries (less so in France or UK, more so in Germany).
The European Commission (as well as the UKPTO, see learned from mickwd's posting) is currently doing a revision of the EU patent law and till 15 Dec 2000, inviting comments on patentability of software.
With legal spirit and practice being divided, the decision may either widen or narrow to the distance to US/AU/JP/ZH (or IN, on the other hand).
If you do have an opinion the road EU should take, please respond to this invitation. You also might consider supporting petition.eurolinux.org or freepatents.org.