Re: [Patents] Large Industry Assocations for McCarthy + Program Claims

[Francois PELLEGRINI <pelegrin@labri.u-bordeaux.fr>]

Hartmut Pilch wrote:
> See text below, converted from an MSWord document.
>
> Note that they claim so speak even in the name of "Europes fastest growing
> 500 Opensource Companies", saying that allowing patent owners to ban
> interoperable software, as secured by article 6 of the directive, is a way
> of protecting open-source software and that preventing the patenting of
> "pure business methods" is a way of preventing "american excesses".

Wwat would be interesting is to know what are these
"500 open-source companies" (are there really so much ?  8^)  ).
I guess in their opinion Microsoft is an open-source
company, through its "open 90% of the sources of Windows"
propaganda program.


                                        f.p.