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connyosis · 07-06-2005, 04:42 AM

Seems like atleast some people realize that software patents is a bad bad idea. I'm celebrating today! (And yes, I'm a geek)

http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/...q3/000109.html

Daniel_ · 07-06-2005, 05:37 AM

I think it was the correct descision.

Software is the application of prior art, generally. It's also covered by copyright law already.

Glory's Sun · 07-06-2005, 06:15 AM

I was so glad to see this. I didn't really think it would pass but was still a bit worried.

cyrnel · 07-06-2005, 07:14 AM

It's things like this that make me question my shitty outlook on life.

Seriously, I hadn't been watching the situation lately and assumed Deep Pockets, Inc. were still controlling it. Good news!

catback · 07-06-2005, 03:20 PM

What has the world come to? Even the idea of software patents is horrid. Anyway one battle towards a non-corrupt world down, millions to go.

muckluck · 07-06-2005, 09:32 PM

Patents in general are a horrible idea IMHO. I think software patents are the worst of them all. Who would want to patent a status bar or the minimize button. Software patents would've killed European based Open Source projects like Knoopix. Today is a glorious day for geeks everywhere

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07-06-2005, 04:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
connyosis Psycho Location: Sweden - Land of the sodomite damned	No software patents in Europe! Seems like atleast some people realize that software patents is a bad bad idea. I'm celebrating today! (And yes, I'm a geek) http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/...q3/000109.html __________________ If atheism is a religion, then not collecting stamps is a hobby.

07-06-2005, 05:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
Daniel_ Evil Priest: The Devil Made Me Do It! Location: Southern England	I think it was the correct descision. Software is the application of prior art, generally. It's also covered by copyright law already. __________________ ╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗ Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air, And deep beneath the rolling waves, In labyrinths of Coral Caves, The Echo of a distant time Comes willowing across the sand; And everthing is Green and Submarine ╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝

07-06-2005, 07:14 AM	#4 (permalink)
cyrnel Adequate Location: In my angry-dome.	It's things like this that make me question my shitty outlook on life. Seriously, I hadn't been watching the situation lately and assumed Deep Pockets, Inc. were still controlling it. Good news! __________________ There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195

07-06-2005, 09:32 PM	#6 (permalink)
muckluck Psycho	Patents in general are a horrible idea IMHO. I think software patents are the worst of them all. Who would want to patent a status bar or the minimize button. Software patents would've killed European based Open Source projects like Knoopix. Today is a glorious day for geeks everywhere . __________________

07-06-2005, 06:15 AM	#3 (permalink)
Glory's Sun Registered User	I was so glad to see this. I didn't really think it would pass but was still a bit worried.

07-06-2005, 03:20 PM	#5 (permalink)
catback Psycho Location: North America	What has the world come to? Even the idea of software patents is horrid. Anyway one battle towards a non-corrupt world down, millions to go.