| David Mandelberg 2004-12-27, 5:52 pm |
| cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote:
> as current EU legislation explicitly forbids software-patents[1] none of
> those are currently legal. _If_ we loose the current legaslitive battle
> that might change, but sofar we seem to be winning (be it with some close
> calls countering the underhanded maneuvers of the pro-patent lobby).
Even though they're illegal, the amount of money it takes to *prove* that to a
patent court is more than most F/OSS projects have.
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David Mandelberg
mandelbergd@eth0.is-a-geek.org
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