Re: [Patents] EU Patent Law Delayed a Month

[Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@1407.org>]

Is this a mistake or intentional?

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 07:09, Seth Johnson wrote:
> > http://www.idg.net/go.cgi?id=804236

> By Paul Meller, IDG News Service
> May 19, 2003    
> 
> The software patent directive has sparked fierce debate in the software
> industry, with free software and open source software supporters arguing
> that there should be no directive at all. At the other extreme, large
> patent-holders such as IBM have been pushing lawmakers to make the software
> patent law as inclusive as possible. 
> 
> Arlene McCarthy, the chairwoman of the legal affairs committee on this
> debate, said earlier this month she is not prepared to consider any
> proposals for amendments that do not acknowledge the patentability of
> software, therefore appearing to cut out the voice of the open and free
> software community. 


It's not just Free Software that it's threatened by software patents.
All software based SME's (be it Free or non-Free/proprietary) are in
pending doom.


Rui

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