On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 09:51:27AM +0200, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Rob Lahaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | http://www.gimp.org/ has taken a firm stand against this EU proposal. > > > | How about LyX? > > I do not know really. > > But how is the new legislation different from what is already in > effect in the USA?
The whole idea of patenting software and business idea is crap. [Patents as such are fine as long as they cover _real inventions_] Think of patenting 'highlighting words by showing them in a different colour on screen in a text processor' [1]. What would we do? Remove LColor? > Free Software trives there? Only as long as the patent holders behave. Until recently I was inclined to think that they would as it does not make much business sense to shut up OSS unless you are MicroSoft, so nobody would wield software patents against OSS. But SCO managesd to prove the contrary... And then there's of course this Europe vs US thingy. As almost everything is already patented 'worldwide' in the US, the direction of the cash flow for patent royalties is clear... > But sure I am aganst patenting software (and ideas). Me too. > Others? I have no problems to support any action against software patents. If that means I shut down my web site for a day I'd do that. Andre' [1] Sharp holds a patent on that...
