Re: Softwarepatents in the EU

From: Phil Carmody (thefatphil_demunged_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: 24 Feb 2004 23:40:10 +0200

Kurt Weber <kmw@rowsw.com> writes:

> Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:
>
> > Since I know that a number of regulars here are from EU countries I post
> > this here in the hope that it may help.
> >
> > Please forgive my clumsy English as I'm not a native English speaker and I
> > have not much exprience with political discussions in English as I'm
> > normally used to more technical discussion.
> >
> > The EU will have a new decision about softwarepatents und the European
> > Council will try to go for unlimited patentabillity. I think tha tmost
> > people here know about at least some of the impact this will have on IT
> > and also on many other business not directly related to IT. Given the
> > current process it will become almost impossible to even speak about
> > algorithms because this already can violate a patent.
> >
> > So if you want to do something you should do it now BEFORE the law is
> > passed.
> >
> > http://www.noepatents.org/
>
> Yes, let's deny individuals exclusive rights to the products of their own
> mind. What a bright idea!

Like plotting a cursor using XOR.
Yeah I agree, plotting with XOR was a stoke of genius, and the
fact that I independently invented it at the age on 13 on my ZX
spectrum in no way reduces the world-shattering genius of the
idea. Let me break open my piggy bank right now and pay up for
my childhood transgressions of such a worthy patent.

Phil 

-- 
1st bug in MS win2k source code found after 20 minutes: scanline.cpp
2nd and 3rd bug found after 10 more minutes: gethost.c
Both non-exploitable. (The 2nd/3rd ones might be, depending on the CRTL)

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