Comments on: EC approves software directive

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:34:40 +0000

“The patent movement has during several decades won the support of large corporations and governments for its set of beliefs. Rolling trains are hard to halt. Yet FFII and others have devoted themselves to this work with considerable success. Here we tell you how you can help us move forward more quickly.”

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http://swpat.ffii.org/group/todo/index.en.html

As well as:

http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/

There’s also:

http://www.fsfeurope.org/

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Wed, 09 Mar 2005 02:21:24 +0000

I know, it’s completely unbelievable, but that would be classed as IP.

The problem is you see, that large companies have already patented this stuff, and, unbelievably, they have been granted the patents!!

Once they have scraped all these patents up, they’ll just leave it until people start using it and only then will they start turning the thumbscrews on.

Then, when they start sueing your arse, you’re going to have to prove that there was some prior art.

How any normal person would fare in a long protracted legal dispute with these kinds of people will know that it doesn’t look good. With all the knids of stall tactics these *expensive* lawyers use, your business would probably run out of money, or lose customers to competitors before you would be able to prove that it is they who are trying it on.

What I want to see is massive penalties for large companies who try this on – ssurely they’re the ones doing the most damage to society, whereas all they ever end up seeing is a dent in their already overstuffed wallets!!

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 15:23:04 +0000

for the start, one could write to as many EU parliament deputates as possible, explaining them the situtation. then visit ffii.org and nosoftwarpatents.com. and if the damn law occasionally passes the parliament i hope there will start a kind of revolution or anti-patent terrorist groups.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 14:34:40 +0000

any links, addresses or petitions against this?
All EU p2pnet users should get involved….

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 04:21:35 +0000

The European Council sits in the pocket of big business just like the congress & senate in the USA. I’m hoping the EP is different, but I doubt it.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Tue, 08 Mar 2005 02:10:20 +0000

but you see.. that’s the beauty of it all.. theyre “Governments”.. which basically means they can do as they please and be excluded from the enforcement which screws everybody else.

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 23:57:52 +0000

Maybe someone should point out to the European Council that many of their own EU websites (and there must be dozens of them) will fall foul of this legislation…

By: Reader's Write

Reader's Write — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 22:44:07 +0000

So essentially, if I want to set up a webshop selling Widgets, I need to have permission from the patent holders for every part of the process?

Uh…WTF?