Re: time to start applying open source patents
From: shakiro (shakiro_at_shaka.khan)
Date: 08/31/05
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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:19:54 +0200
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:34:14 +0200, karlheinz klingbeil wrote:
> shakiro schrub am Mittwoch, 31. August 2005 16:47
> folgendes:
>
>> Creative has awarded a patent for searching through a
>> music database (U.S. Patent 6,928,433) which
>> basically means searching through a tree like
>>
>> Artist - Album - Song Title
>>
>> in which I can not see anything special.
> Sorry for bad english, but...
>
> This is more or less solely an US-American problem (and
> of course a problem of their "satellites".
> In Europe it is not as easy, if not possible, to get a
> patent on Software. Recently the European Parliament
> refused to sign a law which would allow such crap.
Well, I shouldn't rule out Europe too quickly as a 'us-satellite', after
all a big part of europe followed the us as 'ally' in the attacks on and
occupation of Iraq (but let's not start a f**king thread here :)
(** = or)
And the European parliament isn't almighty either.
> Software Patents are a benefit only to people who have mor money for
> lawyers than for research.
>
> So the task is not to patent each and every f*****g crap, but to abandon
> this kind of abuse and cancel all laws which allow such patents.
Yes, and maybe one way to fight it could be to set up a 'virtual patents'
site in which a lot of bright software inventors publish their ideas,
together with small examples showing their realisation in software, which
would be easily browsable en searchable by the white collars of the patent
offices, so they will have no excuse for awarding the asked silly patents.
shakiro
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