[Patents] Richard Stallman re: W3C Patent Policy

[riel@conectiva.com.br (Rik van Riel)]

On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Pascal Desroche wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2001 at 09:14:35AM -0300, Rik van Riel écrit:
> >
> > > But please take note of the danger of the Hague treaty, which
> > > threatens to globalize *all* the laws of the various signatory
> > > countries that can restrict what you can publish. If patents are
> > > included in the Hague treaty--and that is the current proposal--and if
> > > Brazil signs it, Brazilians that publish software on the net could be
> > > in danger from US patent law.
> >
> > ... unless I'm not publishing to the US ;)
>
> no. if Brazil signs it and you publish in Brazil, or in any other
> country wo signed the Hague treaty, then you may confront the legal
> machine of a foreign country member of the treaty.

So if I hit your car in France, you may sue me in Norway,
where neither of us has ever been and which doesn't have
anything to do with the incident ?

regards,

Rik
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