Am 12.07.2005 schrieb Frédéric PIERROT: > Hi, > > > >Hello, > > > > There is a demonstration in Strasbourg tomorrow. > > I"ll be there. > > > > Ludovic. > > > > > ><http://wiki.noepatents.eu.org/index.php/StbDemo050604>http://wiki.noepatents.eu.org/index.php/StbDemo050604 > > > > Kern Sibbald a écrit : > > > > >Hello, > > > > > >After having skimmed over the "Corrdinating Delivery of a Gift" patent > > >recently issued to Jeff Bezos of Amazon, I take back what I said about > > >patents affecting Bacula. > > > > > >If the US patent office allows patents of crap like that, we are all in > >*deep* > > >trouble. > > > > > >We can only hope that the European Union does not follow the US"s lead. > > >However given the huge amount of money involved who knows. > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4655955.stm > > The European Parliament voted 648 to 14 to reject the Computer Implemented > Inventions Directive. :-)
Yeah. Thats really great. But I have another bad news: The EPO (European patent office) has already allowed "computer based inventions" - only 30000 patents were already registered. Maybe the law is another one. The real power has the EPO. Sorry, but that is reality. http://www.heise.de/newsticker/result.xhtml?url=/newsticker/meldung/61446&words=Patente 5th paragraph: [...] Die Grundlinien des internationalen Vertrags sehen vor, dass auf Software "als solche" keine Monopolansprüche gewährt werden dürfen. Das EPA hat diese Regel sehr offen interpretiert und bereits geschätzte 30.000 Patente auf "computerimplementierte Erfindungen" erteilt. [...] I try to translate it: The basic rules of the international contract dont allow to get patents for only(!) software. But the EPO interpreted this rule very wide and gave already 30000 patents for "computer implemented inventions" out. Hope you understand it. The fight is not over yet. And it wont. Nice day folks, Thomas ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
