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Monday, November 28, 2005 |
FSFEurope: "Although the European Patent Convention excludes software from patentability, the European Patent Office is granting patents on software ideas. While >90% of litigation based on such patents would fail in court, they give the patent holders a legal basis for threatening software producers/distributors with litigation. The threat of jail time, massive fines, seizing of assets, and closure of business could generate enough fear among computer users to make people obey these patents as if they were valid.
Greatly increasing the risks involved in software development and distribution will indirectly discriminate against many software models. High legal risks are easier to bear for bodies with large funds and full time legal staff. Free software, which is often contributed to by individuals, by small- and medium-sized enterprises, and by businesses whose core business is not software, would be one category of software which would bear this indirect discrimination."
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The same government that is accusing people of leaking documents and threatening the media about publishing secret memos, has leaked the suggestion that Brown is sabotaging the recent pension proposals.
BBC: "And the unions have accused the government of planning to use the report as an excuse to go back on a deal with public sector workers which allows them to retire aged 60."
11:20:54 AM
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© Copyright 2005 Hetty Litjens.
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