On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 09:34, Joachim Backhaus wrote: > Hi, > > I'm living in germany / europe does that mean > that I can ignore the US patents since we > have a different patent system??? > (I think it's not going that way) > There are rumours floating around that the EU might want to adopt s/w pats... I guess that under certain conditions you might infringe a US s/w patent by releasing the code on the internet even if you're not in US. This raises a question what would happen if you'd just release the sourcecode...
> Fuck software patents. I don't think sw patents have a long life(from the legal point of view) though... Marek
