On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 07:32:19AM -0500, simo wrote: > On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 15:42 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:02:24PM +0100, Free Software Foundation Europe > > wrote: > > > 8. FSFE revisiting software patent information > > > > > > We have begun to revisit the published information on out webpages. > > > There is increasing discussion of software patents within the > > > institutions, > > > so we are revising the information published on out website. Some updates > > > are already online, and in the coming weeks, we will continue to provide > > > more documentation about the current status as well as summaries of what > > > was > > > learned and what has already happened. > > > > > > http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/swpat > > > > Please increase collaboration with FFII on this subject. > > > > The semi-disaster of the Microsoft-vs-CE result > > Why do you call it a disaster? Just for the patents problem? Or is there > anything else?
The patents problem. > > is still producing the > > image that Microsoft's software patents are valid *in*Europe*. > > It's not the EC that is making this possible, it is the EPO that is > releasing patents to Microsoft. With full support from EC, as usual. > Actually if you think it through you can argue that if the commission > forced MS to license their patents for a flat fee, that would constitute > much more recognition that such patents were valid, *YES* this is *THE* principal problem. > However you put it, you can make the EC look good or bad equally. The > only way not to "fall" in the patents trap would be to ignore them > completely. But you can't, as in some countries there are valid patents > and it is much better to be given the option to have a license for these > countries than being barred from selling products/services there. EC has no right to speak for those countries, only Europe. The Microsoft vs EC result is a sham. Rui -- You are what you see. Today is Boomtime, the 7th day of Chaos in the YOLD 3174 + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...? _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list [email protected] https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
