"I refer to your recent email to Chris Huhne MEP. I am his
senior advisor and he has asked me to reply on his behalf.
I am sorry this is a very long reply, but I hope you will
get through it all. This is necessary for a full
understanding because I am afraid that most of the reporting
about what this legislation covers is very wrong. It is not
quite clear why there is such a belief that it is intended
to lead Europe down the US path"
She says...
"To be effective a patent must cover the concept as well as
the detail of the invention, so although a computer program
listing might be given as an example of how to perform part
or all of an invention, the patent claims (the bit that
defines, legally, what is covered) would not be so specific
and usually relate to the method steps that are implemented
in the software."
Quite worrying really...
Not sure what to write back... Its pretty obvious that she just does NOT understand why this is bad. And how it could seriously FUCK UP open source usage and development in Europe...
Yes actually.
I wrote to 6 MEPs from the South East of England. And only one of them wrote back to me. He then said his secretary would investigate what I was saying. She got back to me a few days ago saying that there is no risk from these software patents... and that the reporting about them is all "wrong".
Quite worrying really.
Sorry, my mistake.
I didn't realise that this was a repeated article. I'm sorry for posting it as news.
I am glad however, that this isn't some new SCO initiative.
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It was to Chris Huhne a Liberal Democrat...
The reply from his secretary starts with:
"I refer to your recent email to Chris Huhne MEP. I am his senior advisor and he has asked me to reply on his behalf.
I am sorry this is a very long reply, but I hope you will get through it all. This is necessary for a full understanding because I am afraid that most of the reporting about what this legislation covers is very wrong. It is not quite clear why there is such a belief that it is intended to lead Europe down the US path"
She says...
"To be effective a patent must cover the concept as well as the detail of the invention, so although a computer program listing might be given as an example of how to perform part or all of an invention, the patent claims (the bit that defines, legally, what is covered) would not be so specific and usually relate to the method steps that are implemented in the software."
Quite worrying really...
Not sure what to write back... Its pretty obvious that she just does NOT understand why this is bad. And how it could seriously FUCK UP open source usage and development in Europe...
Yes actually. I wrote to 6 MEPs from the South East of England. And only one of them wrote back to me. He then said his secretary would investigate what I was saying. She got back to me a few days ago saying that there is no risk from these software patents... and that the reporting about them is all "wrong". Quite worrying really.
Sorry, my mistake. I didn't realise that this was a repeated article. I'm sorry for posting it as news. I am glad however, that this isn't some new SCO initiative.