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Comment the European stop software patents petition (Score 1) 77

by ogai on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @08:52AM (#37176958) Attached to: EU Central Court Could Validate Software Patents

Comment A petition against software patents in Europe (Score 1) 166

by ogai on Wednesday August 04, 2010 @12:48PM (#33139308) Attached to: Letter To Abolish Software Patents In Australia

Since more than one year there is a petition online to stop software patents in Europe: http://petition.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ Soon many of the signatories will start similar activities in Europe, where there is a patent system outside any jurisdiction.

Comment Petition to stop software patents (Score 1) 173

by ogai on Thursday March 25, 2010 @05:17AM (#31608244) Attached to: Tridgell Recommends Reading Software Patents

Software patents are evil. Accepting them and trying to circunvent them is not going to help. You cannot circunvent what you cannot be aware of (hundreds of thousands of software patents waiting to bite you as soon as you have enough money for them) More or less one year ago I started the petition: http://petition.stopsoftwarepatents.eu/ More than 50.000 people and 3.000 companies have signed, but many haven't. I have spoken with some in the later group and their reasons are very different from each other. And that is the problem to stop software patents: many think approach a) or b) are not a good idea (or are useless). But that is wrong. All approaches against software patents must be supported (specially if they don't cost you too much). Go and sign the petition now ;-) (even if you are non-european)

Wikileaks Receiving Gestapo Treatment? 667

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @10:57AM from the picking-some-fights dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wikileaks announced on Mar 21 (via its twitter account) its intentions 'to reveal Pentagon murder-coverup at US National Press Club, Apr 5, 9am.' It appears that during the last 24 hours someone from the State Department/CIA decided to visit them, by 'following/photographing/filming/detaining' an editor for 22 hours. Apparently, the offending leak is a video footage of a US airstrike."

Secret EU Open Source Migration Study Leaked 311

Posted by kdawson on Friday May 15, 2009 @08:45AM from the why-they-stick-with-office dept.

Elektroschock writes "For 4 years MEP Marco Cappato tried to get access to the EU Council's 2005 open source migration study because he is a member of a responsible IT oversight committee in the European Parliament. His repeated requests for access were denied. Now they have finally been answered because the Council's study has escaped into the wild (PDF in French and English). Here is a quick look. It is embarrassing! Gartner, when asked if there were any mature public Linux installations in Europe, claimed that there were none. Michael Silver said, 'I have not spoken to any sizable deployments of Linux on the desktop and only one or two StarOffice deployments.' Gartner spread patent and TCO FUD. Also, the European Patent Office participated in the project, although it is not an EU institution."

Comment a good analysis of ACTA (Score 1) 149

by ogai on Sunday February 08, 2009 @11:16AM (#26772443) Attached to: ACTA Could Make Nonprofit P2Ps Face Criminal Penalties

The FFII has a page about ACTA including an analysis.

Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview 250

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 26, 2008 @11:23PM from the excellent-work,-patent-office dept.

ClaraBow writes with this excerpt from MacWorld: "A small Indiana company has sued tech heavyweights Microsoft, Apple, and Google, claiming that it holds the patent on a common file preview feature used by browsers and operating systems to show users small snapshots of the files before they are opened. ... Cygnus's owner and president Gregory Swartz developed the technology laid out in the patent while working on IT consulting projects, McAndrews said. The company is looking for 'a reasonable royalty' as well as a court injunction preventing further infringement, he said. ... Cygnus applied for its patent (#7346850) in 2001. It covers a 'System and method for iconic software environment management' and was granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office in March of this year."

Amazon 1-Click Lawyers Make USPTO Work Xmas Eve 117

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 25, 2008 @07:05PM from the hey-those-guys-are-there-by-choice dept.

theodp writes "In a move that would do pre-makeover Ebenezer proud, Amazon.com's 1-Click lawyers put the USPTO to work on Christmas Eve. On Dec. 24th, the USPTO acknowledged receipt of yet another round of paperwork submitted by Amazon's high-priced legal muscle, the latest salvo in Amazon's 3-year battle to fend off a patent reexamination triggered by the do-it-yourself legal effort of actor Peter Calveley. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' 1-Click patent is also under attack on another front — on Dec. 23rd, the USPTO received $810 from Amazon's attorneys together with a request that the agency invalidate Patent Examiner Mark A. Fadok's final rejection of 1-Click patent claims on the grounds of obviousness. On the bright side, patent clerks — unlike Bob Cratchit — get the day after Christmas off!"

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