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Comment: Signing is only the start of the battle (Score 5, Informative) 82

Signing does not mean a thing because the European Parliament still has to decide whether to give its consent, and when a single nation asks the European court of Justice, or the Constitutional court then it's dead, because it is against EU Treaties/constitutions. it's not too late to get involved.

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France to launch a national patent troll-> 2

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zoobab writes "France is creating a state sponsored patent fund, FranceBrevets, which primary focus will be to sponsor, acquire and license patents in the ICT (read software patents) sector. The patent fund is at the initiative of the minister of Research, Valérie Pécresse, the Ministry of Industry, Energy and digital economy, Eric Besson. The primary target of the fund is to collect licenses on those patents, which is already seen in France as the biggest patent troll of the country. France is also supporting the European Unitary Patent, which is seen by many at the final attempt to validate software patents in Europe."
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Comment: Re:Microsoft lobbyism and more (Score 1) 278

by Elektroschock (#35181780) Attached to: OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks

There is a difference between "taking" and "having in your possession" and "locking Assange out".

DB says its the documents they got in the interim. You can expect a public wikileaks speaker like DB to get documents for wikileaks via geeks.

One of the reasons for leaving wl was an alleged cooperation of Assange with a holocaust denier. That is an impossible thing to do in Germany, it doesn't even matter if Daniel Berg is a jew or not. You simply can't support that.

Comment: Re:Wikileaks bitter about stolen documents? (Score 1) 278

by Elektroschock (#35181572) Attached to: OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks

According to DB
- approx 3500 documents
- submission system was disabled by its developer (not DB) because it was insecure. Developer is another WL defector. DB only revealed in his book that he was aware of that.
- he does not intent to use the documents for openleaks but wants a safe method to return the data

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