El jue, 20-01-2005 a las 21:58 -0800, Justin Mason escribiÃ: > Niclas Hedhman writes: > > On Friday 21 January 2005 01:21, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/55366 > > > > Why so many Farming and Fishing Ministers? What do they know of > > implications > > in the software industrt? > > that's pretty much the point ;) > > I think the idea is that under EU regulations, the (bad) amendment has > reached a point whereby it can be adopted as an "A item", rolled into a > single point on an agenda with the other legislation waiting to be adopted > - -- unless someone present dissents to that adoption, as Poland did in > December. (Thanks Poland!) > > in other words "A items" are rubber-stamping laws that are in the > queue for adoption. > > The actual "A items" are not listed, and it would take a pretty aware > national fisheries representative to know what's going on, and those > guys probably don't care too much what the software industry in their > countries think (or that's probably the idea).
And I feel that a Global Patent War is about to happen, as soon as the implied lobbies slip Europe into accepting software patents. The recent Kodak-Sun and Sun-Microsoft settlements herald the situation, as well as the Eolas and other smaller cases. The proposal of IBM, is in my PERSONAL opinion creating a de-militarized zone to avoid getting dragged into this war. I hope that Europe is clever enough to avoid signing them, adding more incentive for wolves to keep quiet. Regards Santiago -- VP and Chair, Apache Portals (http://portals.apache.org) Apache Software Foundation
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