Re: Software Patents: Was: Re: Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Walters
Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Only if they are enforcable in court. Regarding many multimedia related > software, there is indeed an ugly lot of software patents around, and it > is very unclear if they would succeed in court if somebody would > distribute software which implement ideas described by a

Software Patents: Was: Re: Re: Is anyone packaging `lame' ?

2006-06-02 Thread Chris Walters
> The existing European software patents were granted based on the > assumption that you can differentiate between a computer program and > its underlying ideas. I think such a distinction is indeed possible, > and granting theese patents does not contradict Article 52. But I > strongly believe t