On 04/08/2014 12:39 PM, Erik Albers wrote: > thank you very much for your engagement, I hope it will pay out. > > Fortunately, on national level, many countries inside the European Union now > are aware of the damaging activities of software patents. Unfortunately, this > is not yet true for the European Institutions and Lobbyists still try hard to > to enforce them in Europe. > Thanks to you for your feedback. At least we're succeeding in creating genuine awareness about software patents. Winning the referendum is another thing (but let's see - there's some non-FS-related general anti-EU boost too).
Fun story from Denmark: Hacktivist Christian Panton created a JavaScript client to replace the proprietary, privacy-invading, security-challenged signed Java applet deployed with our national digital signature/SSO. The proprietary Java applet must have read and write access to your files to run, which is not nice when it's a government-sponsored program that must run on everyone's computers. For that reason, I only ever run it in a virtual machine. But Panton solved the problem by creating a JavaScript client, something the company behind the signature has been unable to do with 40 million kroner on top of the > 1 billion they spent on the solution itself. They retaliated by threatening him with PATENT VIOLATIONS: http://www.version2.dk/artikel/nets-vi-bruger-softwarepatenter-56815 When asked what patents they were talking about, they declined to answer.
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