On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 04:28:44PM -0400, tom smith wrote:
> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/060524/152/gchum.html
I actually wrote something about this earlier today at:
The summary of my analysis of the situation is:
In that light, this "new" position of the EC makes perfect sense. The
large corporations both want to be able to patent their software and
want to be able to use others' technologies without having to pay for
them, and they all want the little guys to be shut out of the market.
Now, they've found a way to do it: allow software patents to be
overturned if sufficient money is available to pursue the matter in
court, but otherwise allow patents to be registered and approved,
providing a means by which they can be enforced by threat of
litigation. It's enforcement by attrition.
The bit that's particularly relevant to "us" is:
This, obviously, would effectively screw open source software projects
that don't have significant corporate legal backing.
I don't particularly want to dump the entire essay into the mailing
list, but feel free to redistribute with proper attribution (under CCD
CopyWrite license).
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