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Six months ago I noted that the European Patent Office had embarked upon a fairly abstruse process:
a referral of a “point of law” concerning software patents by the President of the European Patent Office (EPO) to the EPO “Enlarged Board of Appeal”, something that seems to happen quite rarely. Now, you do not have to be a genius to see the problem with this; essentially, the EPO is asking itself whether it wants to widen its own jurisdiction, increase its power and boost its income by allowing software patents. Unless the Enlarged Board of Appeal consists entirely of self-denying, altruistic masochists, I think we can all guess what the answer will be.
Red Hat has been quietly attempting great feats that nobody else does anything more than hand-wave about. All the titans of industry-- IBM, Microsoft, Sun, etc pontificate solemnly on how bad software patents are, and how broken the patent systems are worldwide. But it seems that Red Hat is the only one trying to actually do something about it.
Quoting:ll the titans of industry-- IBM, Microsoft, Sun, etc pontificate solemnly on how bad software patents are
Don't make me laugh, IBM is probably the company owning the most software patents and Microsoft is the company who lobbied the most to make software patents enforceable in the EU. Those have more lobbyists than FSF/FFII, sadly.
Have you got em for Saturn, Hummer, and Saab as well?
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