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:ZDNet Australia: Gates Gonged as OSS community Fights Patent War
ZDNet Australia: Gates Gonged as OSS community Fights Patent War
Mar 4, 2005, 01 :45 UTC (6 Talkback[s]) (5726 reads)

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"A controversial European Commission directive--that proponents say merely reflects and reinforces the current patenting regime in member countries--could in fact, according to an Australian lawyer, stifle open source software development throughout the region. Jeremy Malcolm, a lawyer specialising in information technology said: 'It may perhaps stop some of the development that is going on in Europe on open source. You may find that some people developing software over there will have to stop doing it because of the threat of being sued over patent violations...'"

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Reading various news from a lot of diffe ...   Something I've been noticing   
scott_R
Mar 4, 2005, 02:31:21
 
 Boy, this guy paints a really scary sce ...   Should We Be Afraid, Uncertain, and Doubtful?   
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Mar 4, 2005, 05:55:30
 
What we have here is that IBM is making  ...   late night infomercials   
jack
Mar 4, 2005, 14:24:54
 
>>What we have here is that IBM is makin ...   Re: late night infomercials   
scott_R
Mar 4, 2005, 17:56:21
 
Agreed!!! And: no, "they've NOT been ...   Re: Something I've been noticing   
R.L.
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I don't think that patents are going ...   On patents   
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