Patents fall under intellectual property. Small software houses and start-ups are also affected. If this gets as bad as airport security with regards to privacy invasion, even Joe Public will join us in such a campaign.
Considering that China already pulled out of it, i don't get the whole point of the US pushing this down the EU's throat. Its already a lost battle. I am moving my servers to AWS in Brazil ... oh wait, I have to pay with Visa and they are American - dammit On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 7:53 PM, David C. Carachi <[email protected]>wrote: > In what way? By enforcing software patents? > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Warren Camilleri > Sent: 30 January 2012 19:53 > To: Malta Linux User Group - general list > Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] ACTA > > i know that ramon it also eliminates projects like libreoffice.org, > android and such... > > -- > > Warren Camilleri > > Founding Father > Mobile: +356 7991 2004 > Skype: ossmalta | Twitter: warren_oss > Also a member of MLUG, The Document Foundation, Ubuntu Malta > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ramon Casha" <[email protected]> > To: "MLUG List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, 30 January, 2012 7:35:19 PM > Subject: [LINUX.ORG.MT] ACTA > > > Has anyone taken a close look at ACTA from the perspective of Linux and/or > OSS? For instance, with ACTA, DVD playing software in Linux is illegal > (because they still rely on decss). Also, according to an analysis by the > FSF, ACTA would require that ISPs no longer host free software that can > access copyrighted media, and DRM-protected media would not be legally > playable with free or open source software. > > Ramon Casha > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >
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