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- From: iriXx <iriXx@iriXx.org>
- To: PILCH Hartmut <phm@a2e.de>
- Cc: <C-FIT_Community@realmeasures.dyndns.org>, DMCA_discuss <dmca_discuss@lists.microshaft.org>, <free-sklyarov-uk@xenoclast.org>, <patents@aful.org>
- Subject: Re: [Patents] IT World Feature: Patently ridiculous: What's Europe to do?
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 12:24:04 +0100
- Complaints-to: /dev/null
- Organization: iriXx
On Monday 19 August 2002 09:22, PILCH Hartmut wrote:
> The naming "Eurolinux Alliance" is showing its weakness again. Even this
> article insists that we are an alliance of opensource users and that the
> 90% of consultation comments that went through our website are comments
> from our constituents.
yes, this is misleading - and i would think a lot of people have found the
site by using search engines to find info on patents and ending up on
http://noepatents.org ;(including myself!). i was in general pleased with the
article, although a little disappointed with some sections, i'd taken quite
some time to explain things in detail - i'm glad she made mention of the
effects on small businesses as well as the free software / open source
communities...
>
> The article would also have been better if they had named a few
> EPO/UKPO-granted patents, such as e.g. the JPEG patent. These are in no
> way different from what the USPTO grants. Thus the reader is exposed to a
> lot of patent office junktalk without enough ressources to check for its
> truth.
do you have a URL for information on the jpeg patent?... this could be very
useful for my book...
best,
miriam
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