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. > > You wouldn't want to go there anyway. Most of them drive on the wrong > side of the road for a start (:
I have a hankering to see Krakow one of these days - someone connected with my father's family came from there. ;) > > Cheers, > > Steve Wesley Parish -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
