Manifestation contre les Brevets Logiciels le 23 septembre 2003
Strasbourg, le 16 septembre 2003
La proposition de directive concernant les brevets logiciels, qui sera soumise au Parlement Europeen durant la session du 23 septembre, donne lieu a une vague de protestations sur toute l'Europe.
Le groupe Verts/ALE au Parlement europeen invite a une conference de presse avec des invites prestigieux le 17 septembre 2003 a Bruxelles. (http://www.greens-efa.org/fr/press/de tail.php?id= 1521&lg=fr)
De leur cote, le LUG de Strasbourg, la FFII et l'Alliance Eurolinux appellent a manifester a Strasbourg le mardi 23 septembre 2003 a partir de 11h00 place Kleber pour une marche en direction du Parlement Europeen. Cette action sur le terrain sera appuyee par des manifestations en-ligne.
Derriere ces manifestations, on trouve une coalition d'organisations representant pas moins de 2000 entreprises du secteur logiciel et de plus de 200 000 individus, pour la plupart des professionnels de l'informatique et les signataires d'une petition en-ligne.
Pour les organisateurs "la proposition legaliserait des milliers de brevets deja delivres par l'Office Europeen des Brevets, contre la lettre et l'esprit de la loi. Cela rendrait impossible aux cours de justice nationales de continuer a les rejeter." La directive proposee protege les interets des possesseurs de brevets et des juristes en brevets, des gens que la Commission appelle "une majorite economique", ignorant le rejet unanime des brevets logiciels exprime via la petition de l'Alliance Eurolinux sur le sujet : 94% de reponses negatives !
Le programme des protestations a Strasbourg est le suivant:
11:00-12:30 | Place Kleber | Defile dans les rues de Strasbourg jusqu'au Parlement Europeen 12:30-14:00 | Manifestation devant le Parlement avec spectacle, enumeration de brevets absurdes deja deposes, discours.
"Le brevet europeen est defini par la convention de Munich, traite international ratifie par 19 etats independamment du traite de Rome. L'article 52 de la Convention du Brevet Europeen stipule que les brevets sur les programmes d'ordinateur en tant que tels sont interdits en Europe. Pourtant, l'Office Europeen des Brevets a accorde des centaines de brevets portant sur des programmes d'ordinateurs", nous dit Eric Bischoff du LUG de Strasbourg, "Accepter cette proposition de directive europeenne serait suicidaire pour les PME et PMI europeennes, cela revient a livrer pieds et poings lies l'ensemble des petites entreprises europeennes a la merci des grosses societes americaines et japonaises, qui ont depose 65% des brevets logiciels europeens."
"La grande majorite de nos supporters ne sera certainement pas presente le 23 septembre. Mais ceux qui ne peuvent pas se deplacer a Strasbourg pourront participer a la manifestation en ligne, via leurs serveurs web ou d'autres services Internet" explique Harmut Pilch, president de la FFII. "Nous avons propose differentes facons de participer a la manifestation en ligne. Tout le monde en trouvera certainement une qui lui convient. Il vaut sans doute mieux rendre l'acces a sa page web un peu plus difficile pour les quelques jours a venir plutot que de perdre sa liberte de publication pour les dix ans qui viennent. Rendez-vous compte que si le rapport McCarthy est approuve tel quel, sans y introduire des amendements drastiques, le Droit d'Auteur et la liberte de publication deviendront sans valeur. Les programmeurs et les fournisseurs de services Internet seront regulierement poursuivis pour violation de brevets. Le 23 septembre est la derniere chance de faire entendre sa voix."
You're supposed to lookup KnifeHandle and KnifeBlase with JNDI. Also, I'd recommend you perform bread(cut) within an XA-enabled transaction inside a Session Bean. This should multiply the number of LOC by 2 or 3.
Of course he'll veto it. He needs to control the media to win the next election. He needs to make sure that we have glowing pictures of Iraq on the tube every night.
One day, squirrels will come flying out of my ass. They too will be fighting terrorism.
Seriously, it's OK to sell crap, as long as you're fighting terrorism. It's OK to lockup innocents as long as you're fighting terrorism, it's OK to bomb Iraq as long as you're fighting terrorism. It's OK to bankrupt the economy as long as you're fighting terrorism. Next we should lock up 12-year olds to help with the fight on file sharers. They could also be terrorists.
I couldn't agree with you more. This is great. I heard the RIAA dude on NPR saying he wanted this to be on the news every week, well it's going to be. Nothing the press likes more than big business going after widows and orphans.
In Fast Food Nation, E. Schlosser explains how McDonalds once tried to sue a consummer group that critized them in the U.K. At first, it cost the group money, but then, the trial dragged on, McD was called to testify, show confidential (and damaging) data which the press publicized for months at a time. The negative publicity ended up costing them hundreds of millions of dollars.
The RIAA deserves the same treatment. Bring it on!
this is the net result of this stupid campaign: people are setting up FTP servers and snail-mailing each other mp3 compilations. OK, it's not as user-friendly & Napster-cool but the point is: MP3 trading will never stop.
if the new media can be plugged into anything that can be programmed, the game is over. Even if it's not, you can still re-capture the (analog) audio with a sound card and make a pretty good copy. it's not perfect but but people will still do it.
I don't think there's anything the RIAA can do at this point. And this is the tale of what's to come for the movie industry with DVD ripping/burning.
for the first time will include tools for restricting access to documents created with the software. Office workers can specify who can read or alter a spreadsheet, block it from copying or printing, and set an expiration date.
this will be great when someone quietly locks 10 years worth of documents he created before getting laid off... a week later, after his Win* user ID has been deleted, his boss will loooooove the new DRM features implemented by Microsoft.
Or perhaps it's time to start pricing CDs to reasonable amounts, like for instance this $9.99 re-edition of Neil Young's classic instead of the usual $18.99 for the usual crap.
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I'm registering
Call me Verisign-boy
"I only use a Mac.."
Up yours, RIAA!
Always picking on the Mac users...
>>> courtroom nonsense and bickering
If you call making sure all the votes are counted 'bickering' then we're in serious trouble.
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Manifestation contre les Brevets Logiciels le 23 septembre 2003
Strasbourg, le 16 septembre 2003
La proposition de directive concernant les brevets logiciels, qui sera
soumise au Parlement Europeen durant la session du 23 septembre, donne lieu
a une vague de protestations sur toute l'Europe.
Le groupe Verts/ALE au Parlement europeen invite a une conference de presse
avec des invites prestigieux le 17 septembre 2003 a Bruxelles.
(http://www.greens-efa.org/fr/press/d
De leur cote, le LUG de Strasbourg, la FFII et l'Alliance Eurolinux
appellent a manifester a Strasbourg le mardi 23 septembre 2003 a partir de
11h00 place Kleber pour une marche en direction du Parlement Europeen. Cette
action sur le terrain sera appuyee par des manifestations en-ligne.
Derriere ces manifestations, on trouve une coalition d'organisations
representant pas moins de 2000 entreprises du secteur logiciel et de plus de
200 000 individus, pour la plupart des professionnels de l'informatique et
les signataires d'une petition en-ligne.
Pour les organisateurs "la proposition legaliserait des milliers de brevets
deja delivres par l'Office Europeen des Brevets, contre la lettre et
l'esprit de la loi. Cela rendrait impossible aux cours de justice nationales
de continuer a les rejeter." La directive proposee protege les interets des
possesseurs de brevets et des juristes en brevets, des gens que la
Commission appelle "une majorite economique", ignorant le rejet unanime des
brevets logiciels exprime via la petition de l'Alliance Eurolinux sur le
sujet : 94% de reponses negatives !
Le programme des protestations a Strasbourg est le suivant
11:00-12:30 | Place Kleber | Defile dans les rues de Strasbourg jusqu'au
Parlement Europeen
12:30-14:00 | Manifestation devant le Parlement avec spectacle, enumeration
de brevets absurdes deja deposes, discours.
"Le brevet europeen est defini par la convention de Munich, traite
international ratifie par 19 etats independamment du traite de Rome.
L'article 52 de la Convention du Brevet Europeen stipule que les brevets sur
les programmes d'ordinateur en tant que tels sont interdits en Europe.
Pourtant, l'Office Europeen des Brevets a accorde des centaines de brevets
portant sur des programmes d'ordinateurs", nous dit Eric Bischoff du LUG de
Strasbourg, "Accepter cette proposition de directive europeenne serait
suicidaire pour les PME et PMI europeennes, cela revient a livrer pieds et
poings lies l'ensemble des petites entreprises europeennes a la merci des
grosses societes americaines et japonaises, qui ont depose 65% des brevets
logiciels europeens."
"La grande majorite de nos supporters ne sera certainement pas presente le
23 septembre. Mais ceux qui ne peuvent pas se deplacer a Strasbourg pourront
participer a la manifestation en ligne, via leurs serveurs web ou d'autres
services Internet" explique Harmut Pilch, president de la FFII. "Nous avons
propose differentes facons de participer a la manifestation en ligne. Tout
le monde en trouvera certainement une qui lui convient. Il vaut sans doute
mieux rendre l'acces a sa page web un peu plus difficile pour les quelques
jours a venir plutot que de perdre sa liberte de publication pour les dix
ans qui viennent. Rendez-vous compte que si le rapport McCarthy est approuve
tel quel, sans y introduire des amendements drastiques, le Droit d'Auteur et
la liberte de publication deviendront sans valeur. Les programmeurs et les
fournisseurs de services Internet seront regulierement poursuivis pour
violation de brevets. Le 23 septembre est la derniere chance de faire
entendre sa voix."
You're supposed to lookup KnifeHandle and KnifeBlase with JNDI. Also, I'd recommend you perform bread(cut) within an XA-enabled transaction inside a Session Bean. This should multiply the number of LOC by 2 or 3.
Classic indeed. I once saw a whole row of BSODs displays in the Toronto airport. It looked pretty awesome.
Agree. VA Linux really should open a public server.
> CNN Politics, CNN Music, CNN Sports
one URL for you: MSN.com
Of course he'll veto it. He needs to control the media to win the next election. He needs to make sure that we have glowing pictures of Iraq on the tube every night.
Also, it never hurts to also control the voting machines.
Sickening.
How long before Taco also posts it?
Are you for real?
One day, squirrels will come flying out of my ass. They too will be fighting terrorism.
Seriously, it's OK to sell crap, as long as you're fighting terrorism. It's OK to lockup innocents as long as you're fighting terrorism, it's OK to bomb Iraq as long as you're fighting terrorism. It's OK to bankrupt the economy as long as you're fighting terrorism. Next we should lock up 12-year olds to help with the fight on file sharers. They could also be terrorists.
The McCarthy era is back, in full force.
Go ahead fuckers, mod me down.
I couldn't agree with you more. This is great. I heard the RIAA dude on NPR saying he wanted this to be on the news every week, well it's going to be. Nothing the press likes more than big business going after widows and orphans.
In Fast Food Nation, E. Schlosser explains how McDonalds once tried to sue a consummer group that critized them in the U.K. At first, it cost the group money, but then, the trial dragged on, McD was called to testify, show confidential (and damaging) data which the press publicized for months at a time. The negative publicity ended up costing them hundreds of millions of dollars.
The RIAA deserves the same treatment. Bring it on!
this is the net result of this stupid campaign: people are setting up FTP servers and snail-mailing each other mp3 compilations. OK, it's not as user-friendly & Napster-cool but the point is: MP3 trading will never stop.
a DB-backed filesystem is a genius idea until some asks: where should the database write its data files? ah, yes, the filesystem!
I think it's become the perpetual movement problem of the software industry.
puhleeze
or as they say in Florida:
1.
2.Change votes
3.??
4.Profit!
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I think that's what he's referring to. Why does everything have to be bound at compile time?
I've struggled with that same question many times, i.e. Hibernate or XDoclet?
if the new media can be plugged into anything that can be programmed, the game is over. Even if it's not, you can still re-capture the (analog) audio with a sound card and make a pretty good copy. it's not perfect but but people will still do it. I don't think there's anything the RIAA can do at this point. And this is the tale of what's to come for the movie industry with DVD ripping/burning.
for the first time will include tools for restricting access to documents created with the software. Office workers can specify who can read or alter a spreadsheet, block it from copying or printing, and set an expiration date.
this will be great when someone quietly locks 10 years worth of documents he created before getting laid off... a week later, after his Win* user ID has been deleted, his boss will loooooove the new DRM features implemented by Microsoft.
Or perhaps it's time to start pricing CDs to reasonable amounts, like for instance this $9.99 re-edition of Neil Young's classic instead of the usual $18.99 for the usual crap.
And what do you expect Bush to do with the $170M he raised for the next election?
...not to mention that it's what allows them to run for Governor of California.
Next time, try to stay on-topic. Also, name calling & anonymous posts hardly add any value. Cheers.