Well, that is a bold statement to make, considering that the neuramidase inhibitors connection to influenza have been known at least since the 70-ties. And Roches patents for the specific neuramidase inhibitor that is in "Tamiflu" were filed in 1999.
And lack of respect for authorities on a field is a problem in my opinion. It is bad when people will not recognise that some text and ideas are just WRONG - this is of course especially obvious in the natural sciences and mathematics.
I see you live in London wikipedia on you - and I presume that you socialize with friends that are rich and maybe even fellow filantrhopists - do any of they share your interest for IT and open source? Do you seek to make them take interest? (because my favorite projects KDE and Wikipedia could use benefactors of your kind - sorry for the shameless plug - the question was serious. You are the only IT-filanthropist I can think of)
then you will see that they claim to avoid these kinds of "frivolus patents". I guess that one has to really read the proposal to be sure. At least make sure that you say something else than "Don't do it - it will be like horrible like in America" - because the MEP's are told that it won't be like that.
You should remark that the examples of "ok to patent" from the linked text
# an invention in which an X-ray apparatus was controlled by a data processing unit in a way which provided an optimum balance between potentially conflicting operational requirements
# an invention in which an increase in processing speed in a computer was achieved by a new and non-obvious method
actually allows the sorts of patents one sees in the US unless the EUPO is given _ample_ technical expertise to assert which ideas really are new.
Even better is of course to explain why patents on software are evil in all shapes and forms (if that is true).
Or to explain that the bennefits of "good patents" will be outweighed by the disasterous roadblocks to normal conpetetion on the software market that the inevitable "bad/frivolous patents" will create.
In short - MAKE SURE THAT YOUR ARGUMENT IS NOT EASILY DISMISSED BY YOUR MEP AS "OUR PROPOSAL TAKES CARE OF THAT"! If it is dismissed easily your mail will do more harm than good.
I personally like CVS very much. But I think that I am going to like Subversion Subversion even more, in a few versions time.
If you can wait a bit more than that you might want to look at an IBM research project called Stellation Version Control Stellation
CVS is quite nicely integrated in that super IDE, Eclipse. And the two others have integration underway.
I think Eclipse has things going for it right now. Its open source and quite a lot of people seem to be extending the core Java IDE functionality. The C/C++ plugin is supposedly a very mature beta, but uses linux stuff and needs cygwin to run on windows.
Mentioned extensions to the IDE are
C/C++ (supported by the eclipse project, will be released later this summer)
Ruby (works, I think)
C# (works, supposedly)
Perl (planned) .NET/.gnu/mono (planned)
Have a look at
http://www.eclipse.com
and
http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net
Slashdot Mirror
The NAMD licens is not Free. It is not even open source. Among other things it is "non-transferable".
Well, that is a bold statement to make, considering that the neuramidase inhibitors connection to influenza have been known at least since the 70-ties. And Roches patents for the specific neuramidase inhibitor that is in "Tamiflu" were filed in 1999.
Yes, WebCore is Apples fork of KHTML. Read here for an explanation on how the collaboration between the projects works.
http://images.forbes.com//video/fvn/misc/radiocont rolledhuman.rm
Well, the thing didn't show up in my firefox.
And lack of respect for authorities on a field is a problem in my opinion. It is bad when people will not recognise that some text and ideas are just WRONG - this is of course especially obvious in the natural sciences and mathematics.
"[...]its potential is enormous. " ??? Don't we just need an evil "MU-WHA-HA-HA-HAAaaa" now?
I see you live in London wikipedia on you - and I presume that you socialize with friends that are rich and maybe even fellow filantrhopists - do any of they share your interest for IT and open source? Do you seek to make them take interest? (because my favorite projects KDE and Wikipedia could use benefactors of your kind - sorry for the shameless plug - the question was serious. You are the only IT-filanthropist I can think of)
It must have - I remember that part also (but it is clearly not there now)
A pity, you gotta love a comment like "how can you trust a man who cannot multiply small positive integers"
Hi,
If you read the texts published by the EP-members that published eg
this
then you will see that they claim to avoid these kinds of "frivolus patents". I guess that one has to really read the proposal to be sure. At least make sure that you say something else than "Don't do it - it will be like horrible like in America" - because the MEP's are told that it won't be like that.
You should remark that the examples of "ok to patent" from the linked text
# an invention in which an X-ray apparatus was controlled by a data processing unit in a way which provided an optimum balance between potentially conflicting operational requirements
# an invention in which an increase in processing speed in a computer was achieved by a new and non-obvious method
actually allows the sorts of patents one sees in the US unless the EUPO is given _ample_ technical expertise to assert which ideas really are new.
Even better is of course to explain why patents on software are evil in all shapes and forms (if that is true).
Or to explain that the bennefits of "good patents" will be outweighed by the disasterous roadblocks to normal conpetetion on the software market that the inevitable "bad/frivolous patents" will create.
In short - MAKE SURE THAT YOUR ARGUMENT IS NOT EASILY DISMISSED BY YOUR MEP AS "OUR PROPOSAL TAKES CARE OF THAT"! If it is dismissed easily your mail will do more harm than good.
I personally like CVS very much. But I think that I am going to like Subversion
Subversion
even more, in a few versions time. If you can wait a bit more than that you might want to look at an IBM research project called Stellation Version Control
Stellation
CVS is quite nicely integrated in that super IDE, Eclipse. And the two others have integration underway.
Jikes!
ORP
German speakers...? It is in English too, though - http://developer.berlios.de/
I think Eclipse has things going for it right now. Its open source and quite a lot of people seem to be extending the core Java IDE functionality. The C/C++ plugin is supposedly a very mature beta, but uses linux stuff and needs cygwin to run on windows. Mentioned extensions to the IDE are
.NET/.gnu/mono (planned)
C/C++ (supported by the eclipse project, will be released later this summer)
Ruby (works, I think)
C# (works, supposedly)
Perl (planned)
Have a look at
http://www.eclipse.com
and
http://eclipse-plugins.2y.net