From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31129 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Aug 2003 09:29:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 25108 invoked from network); 28 Aug 2003 09:29:45 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 11:29:43 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <1062016412.3111.3.camel@biproc> <20030827231334.4d70b88d.pYrania@c0ffeine.de> <200308271435.43103.matt@legalizefreedom.org> In-Reply-To: <200308271435.43103.matt@legalizefreedom.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308281129.43943.pauldv@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] European Patentability rules X-Archives-Salt: 4b879c4c-3bef-4330-87cc-390f8fddabc1 X-Archives-Hash: abc9b48e9bfa776e7368601d0ec0fcfd =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 27 August 2003 23:35, Matt Chorman wrote: > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 02:13 pm, Markus Nigbur wrote: > > On 27 Aug 2003 22:33:32 +0200 > > Aug 27 21:34:17 * klieber happens to support software patents. > > > > -- > > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > It's amazing to me that any open-source developer would agree with softwa= re > patents. Just on a random search of the US patent office, I found that I > (and probably each and every one of you) are guilty of patent infringment= - > daily. Have you ever used a computer to initiate a remote session - ssh? > vnc? X? Look up patent 6,611,865. Be thankful HP hasn't started suing > everyone under the sun. I personally are not completeley opposed to software pattents either. But I= =20 think currently there are a) too many trivial patents, and b) I believe tha= t=20 general business methods should not be allowed to be pattented (like those= =20 stupid amazon one-click patents) and c) that for software the protection ti= me=20 of 20 years is too long when compared to the lifetime of products using tho= se=20 patents. I think a period of say 5 years is more reasonable. Last I believe that the patent granting process should be changed to make i= t=20 easier for people to object against granting a patent in the first place. T= he=20 patent office makes money on granting patents, so there should be a way tha= t=20 independent parties can go and tell the office that a patent is trivial or= =20 state of the art (easilly replicatable by a third party based on current=20 public research) or even prior art (allready done by someone else before th= e=20 patent application date). But before the patenting process and patent lifetime is aranged properly I= =20 believe we should not allow software patents, therefor I believe the=20 anti-patent protest should be supported. Paul =2D --=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/TcuHbKx5DBjWFdsRAvUWAKC2dsjGxXwIAB9pM618Z2awNdJlvwCfY4Fq QjUZUpMmLbqJrOcXY5c35OY=3D =3D2Ik4 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list