On Fri 29.08.2003 at 12:32:19PM +0200, Dirk Meyer wrote: > Examples: Amazon has a patent for 'sending gifts over a webshop', > Adobe on 'windows with tabs', some company on 'a progress bar', in > France someone patented 'working 35 hours a week' [1].
Actually, it's Free Software users association which has patented *one* method to switch a company from 39 hours/week to 35 hours/week, as an example of something stupid to patent which is however accepted by the patent office. Btw, I don't know if it's a hoax or not, but an Australian lawyer has patented the weel. > It looks like the vote will be postponed. The German Linux Association > (LIVE) send some realy good docs to some German politicians (same for > some other countries) to show that the new law will be bad for Open > Source the German government is supporting and for small companies. > [1] Yes, if you want to work 35 hours a week (German: 35 Stunden > Woche), you may need to pay for this in the future This is not true, then. It's only if you use the method described in that patent. I don't know how generic that method is, however. But there is a very high probability that the association will never ask for money when people are switching to 35 hours/week. Matthieu -- (~._.~) Matthieu Weber - Universit� de Jyv�skyl� (~._.~) ( ? ) email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ? ) ()- -() public key id : 452AE0AD ()- -() (_)-(_) "Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht (Germain Muller)" (_)-(_) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
