[Gllug] european software patents
Alain Williams
addw at phcomp.co.uk
Sat Jul 5 16:53:00 UTC 2003
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 05:28:25PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> But I am also left with one more impression - that maybe there is a lot of
> woolf being cried here. Afterall the US already has software patents, and i
> also has the DMCA, yet free software is also spewing out of the place.
To use the patent weapon against FOSS it has to have a big a hit as possible, ie take
FOSS out of as many (important [[ tm ]]) countries as possible.
If patents was to be used in the US now, there is a risk of a large bell ringing in
the EU - so EU politicians might see what the dangers are and not bring in s/ware patents.
Far better to wait 'till it has been adopted and then use it.
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