[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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Posted by Frodon on 26-Apr-2002 20:11 GMT | Hello,
You said:
> SW-patents were introduced only year ago (in the EU) and
> afaik that doesn't cover old SW (like AOS).
In fact SW-Patents DON'T EXIST in European Union for now!!!!! And I don't think that they'll exist a day because it's too dangerous. I mean, when you want to register a patents you have to do the research of the already existence of what you want to register by yourself. And you know that software exist in many flavours like Freewares, Sharewares, Free-Softwares, OpenSource, Commercial...etc
And there is to much existing softwares to register a patents and be sure that you are the real inventor of the software technology.
If a day SW-Patents exists that will be very dangerous for the Freewares, sharewares, Opensource softwares, FreeSoftwares and all other non-commercial softwares because the developpers that chose this kind of distribution modes usually don't have enough money to register a patent and so don't have to money to support a lawsuit too. That's mean in that case that the software world will only be composed of commercial softwares and that would be a nightmare! I love sharewares, freewares...etc after all MUI is a shareware and what would be the Amiga without MUI???
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