On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:35:17PM +0000, Alex Hudson wrote: > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 12:17 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 12:07:41PM +0000, Alex Hudson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 12:02 +0000, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > > > > Now it makes sense. Still: => recognising validity of Microsoft's > > > > software patents. => foot, meet bullet > > > > > > You would prefer they pretend those patents weren't issued? > > > > No, they should demand EPO to ungrant them. > > Honestly, I think that would be completely pointless politicking for > absolutely no gain. There are some battles not worth fighting, and > attempting to bust a few patents down in a negotiation process for much > more important information is one of them.
Not bust a few patents, all *software* patents. First step is not recognising them at all. > Let's imagine that by some chance the EC agreed that the patents should > be invalidated, and bypassed the usual legal process for whatever > bizarre and dangerous reason. What good does that do us? It doesn't > invalidate all the other software patents that have been granted in > Europe. The EC isn't going to set any kind of precedent in patents with > some anti-trust agreement. Haven't you noticed? They already did! If you have patents, don't worry about anti-trust! > Software patents aren't going to be defeated one-by-one by knocking them > out some way; the legal situation needs clarity so that the patents are > recognisably unenforcable. Right now that arguably isn't the case. I don't defend that. I defend that they must not be recognised at all. In Europe there are no Software Patents. There are some patents that have been granted against the law. Rui -- Hail Eris! 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
