How the hell can a patent like that be grated. Its only going too get worse they department of something (in Washington) is currently drawing up a 'treaty' that will force stronger international patent laws. We wont let their ships in but probably will sign their treaty.
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 22:36, Jason Greenwood wrote: > http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/DA2099EE2B07C993CC256DC8002A0D93 > > This is getting TOTALLY out of hand! How can NZ continue allowing > ridiculous patents that patent IDEAS that are so intangible as to be > unenforceable? I mean, pyisical objects fine but do we want to get to a > stage where we can DO nothing online without paying a patent holder for > a concept that is blatantly obvious to all but the moronic? How do we > stop this? In all these stories, I read about "a period for public > comment." How and where is this comment supposed to happen? They sure as > hell do not list a website for it in any of these articles. IDC NZ is > particularly bad for that - mentioning a website but not giving a URL or > link to it... > > Ideas people? This may not be so off topic afterall. We need OPEN > Internet standards, not patents all over the show. -- .''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system
