Going Down For Europe...

Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
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<div class="IPBDescription">Courtesy of MonsEs boring job...</div> <a href='http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39115913,00.htm' target='_blank'>6000 Webpages are taken down by their hosts in protest against a new European patent law due for decision on Sept 1st.</a>

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  • SpoogeSpooge Thunderbolt missile in your cheerios Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 67Members
    So... a large software company spends their time, their people power, their resources, their knowledge, and their money to develop a product so that a smaller company can spend no time, no people power, no resources, no knowledge, and no money to sell a product.





    Sounds fair.
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  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    edited August 2003
    I'd have to be unsympathetic to this one - granted, I haven't read much about it, but if someone wants to patent their work I don't see why they shouldn't be permitted to. If someone wants to make their code available to all, more power to them, but everyone shouldn't have to do that.

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    That made me laugh, because mimes are funny.
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  • zoobyzooby Join Date: 2003-08-26 Member: 20236Members
    That's just silly. and obnoxious. (of the EU, that is)
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  • moultanomoultano Creator of ns_shiva. Join Date: 2002-12-14 Member: 10806Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, Reinforced - Shadow, WC 2013 - Gold, NS2 Community Developer, Pistachionauts
    edited August 2003
    Patenting algorithms is a lot different from patenting inventions. It's basically patenting math. To a lot of people who use computer science techniques regularly, it is about as rediculous as patenting addition. Some things are too fundamental to the way the universe and logical systems work to be patented.
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