On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:05:50AM +0100, Jonas Öberg wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 08:35:36 +0000 > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > => recognizing MS Software Patents in EU > > I can see how you can make this connection, but I don't think it > necessarily reflects reality. The EC is with no uncertainty aware of > our position against software patents, and accepting this license does > in no way change our opinion that granted patents on software should be > invalidated and no new patents granted on the subject.
"Our" opinion doesn't count for them. They are creating "precedents" that recognise the validity of software patents. > If anything, accepting this license might be a recognision of patents > in general, but it's not a recognision of software patents. Oh really? Do you know of any other patents than software patents when you speak of file formats or communication protocols in digital media? :) > In fact, the agreement with Microsoft makes crystal clear in several > places that the licensee is not waiving its right to contest the > validity of the patents, and I'm quite sure this will happen at some > point in time. Which is why I wonder why no criticism of this came forward. Arguing that at least there's some information on protocols/file-formats in this form is just the same as arguing that at least OOXML gives some info about MS Word's file-format. It's utterly irrelevant because there are more important issues behind these moves. One of the things this court result brought is that «forget anti-trust if there are patents involved». Rui -- Or is it? Today is Pungenday, the 8th 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
