Re: hash patent by AltNet; Python is prior art?
From: JanC (usenet_spam_at_janc.invalid)
Date: 01/22/05
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Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 02:35:22 GMT
Tim Churches schreef:
> And I agree 100% with Alex Martelli - Europe and other countries must
> reject software, algorithmic and business method patents and thus create
> a powerhouse of innovation. let the US and fellow-travellers stew in
> their own juice - they will become powerhouses of litigation instead.
> Provided other countries don't recognise software and business method
> patents, the litigation will be confined within US borders, where
> resources can be productivelt spent making television dramas about
> attractive young patent attorneys and plodding, tram-riding patent
> clerks who are really brilliant physicists if only someone would
> recognise their potential. So yes, please write to your MP and MEP and
> protest against the prospect of software and business method patents in
> Europe. Hopefully one day within my lifetime we'll have a governemt here
> in Australia which will roll back the damage done to our patent system
> by trying to make just like the US system, just so we can conclude an
> unbelieveably inequitable free trade agreement with the US. But that's
> our problem.
It's not looking really good here in Europe:
<http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/fish0501/index.html>
If they succeed to push this through and Poland--or another country--
doesn't help us... :-(
-- JanC "Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." RFC 1958 - Architectural Principles of the Internet - section 3.9
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