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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
