I read the blurb on the website and apparently it was a deal the Euro Council struck with the Patent Office - through some political horse trading, the European Patent Office managed to gain self-regulatory status on how they develop patent law! They give the patents out, and then tell the Euro Parliament what patent law to write to justify it.

By the way, you guys have software patents in the US already and in fact recently some patent court case awarded 0.5 billion against M$ to some small CA company - who have apparently the patent on 'browser extensions'. :P


On 08/28/2003 06:10 PM Nguyen Anh Tuan wrote:
I think the European Commission invented this stupid
idea when they were drunk.

However, those stupid people might be bribed by Bill
Gates to do so.

I can't believe that those primitive animals like
people in the European Commission still exist in the
21st Century.


--- Stuart MacPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Forbid independent development of innovative
software-based solutions...

So you might only be able to code for someone else?!

That does not sound good...




-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Hardy
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Subject: [OT] but IMPORTANT


If you haven't checked

http://jakarta.apache.org/

today, do so and read the welcome page. Sounds dire,
but in these times, predictable.



Nothing to do with me, I just agree with it.


Adam




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