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Maybe we should contact our MEPs about this!
One needs to keep om mind that the proposed directive
would help large multi-nationals and adversely affect
SMEs (i.e. all our IT industry) so there an economic 
disadvantage for Malta here, besides the obvious 
implications on fairness.

Philip

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 20:51, Keith Vassallo wrote:
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> James, 
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> Yes, I've noticed it too, it even replaced the apache homepage!  I seems to
> be worrying many people. Apparently, if the regulation passes, not only can
> I copyright, for example, an anti-virus program, but I can patent the idea
> itself - any software program which removes virii. This means only I would
> be able to make anti-virii.
> 
> Loads of sites like apache and PHP, as well as many other Linux projects are
> saying this will affect them badly.
> 
> Keith 
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> This link here is appearing in a lot of Linux software related websites..
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> http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
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> Have you given it a look?
> 
> James.
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