On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:26, Steve Holdoway wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Apr 2005 16:25, Carl Cerecke wrote: > >>Douglas Royds wrote: > >>>Carl Cerecke wrote: > >>>>Here is an interesting article of IP issues relating to software from > >>>>a NZ perspective. > >>>> > >>>>http://www.chapmantripp.co.nz/resource_library/published_article.asp?id > >>>>= 4157 > >>> > >>>Note in particular that you can - according to this article - patent > >>>both software source code and business practices in NZ. Joy. > >> > >>So I noticed. I didn't realise software was patentable in NZ. Maybe the > >>article is incorrect? I don't remember seeing anything about it. > > > >There was a horrendously complex 'position paper' released by them bods in > >Wellington about a year ago iirc. They did the normal thing requesting > >considered comment about a fortnight before the date set aside for debate > > in Parliament. Thus there were no, or very few, comments. NZ was put over > > the proverbial barrel, and the IP quid pro quo for the Free Trade Treaty > > got stuffed up you know where. Am I surprised, no, I'm not. Our ignorant > > representatives in Parliament got the wool pulled over their eyes by the > > Colonial Masters of The Moment and they did as they were told. > > Tragically, it happens only too often. > > > >If I was younger I would be heading off the Europe. There is still a > > remote chance that sanity might break lose there. > > > >-- > >C. S. > > Sorry Chris, > > The last vote in the Euro parliament was staved off solely by the action > of those software giants, the Poles. We owe the Poles a tremendous vote of gratitude. Their cracking of the Enigma codes was vital to the eventual defeat of Germany by non-nuclear means. ( Yes I know Turing et al helped a lot, but the main thrust to the solution was Polish )
Other countries have now joined in with the No-patents side. > You wouldn't want to go there anyway. Oh yes I would. The food is scrumptious. The countryside is populated by both people and wild creatures. The laws are fairly sane. There is a decent level of care for ordinary people. Certainly that is the case in France and Germany as I understand it. > Most of them drive on the wrong side of the road for a start (: So? It only takes a moment or two to get used to that. The good thing about the roads in Europe is that there is none of that idiotic and dangerous "always give way to the right" rule. They are good enough to allow you to travel more or less, and within reason, as fast as you want. -- C. S.
