On Wed, 08 Aug 2001, Simo Sorce wrote:
Max Moritz Sievers wrote:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/internal_market/en/indprop/softpatanalyse.htm
so they ask for comment and then unsatisfied by the results (largely against software patentability) they group most of the comments against patents under the name Open Source lobbyst and claim they does not count so much!
I'm disgusted.
Okay I read the first 8 pages, and overall I liked it. I thought the wording in places was a dodgy, but otherwise it was a good attempt at summing up everyones views.
They have obviously tried to keep it impartial, and aren't 'unsatisfied by the results' - just trying in their own eyes to make it fair. If you disagree, fair enough - and like it says, the eventual weighting will be done by politcs.
If it was the other way round, and 90% companies for patents, you'd be saying how you think the 10%-against should be weighted more etc..
weighting is always necessary, even if it sounds horrible.
Well.. yes anyway.
regards JohnFlux
What can we still do against software patents if the EU is not democratic?
from the paper:
"Major players should resist the temptation to aggressively exploit opportunistic patents such as those covering hyperlinks"...
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-- Simo Sorce
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