Re: [Dev-C++] To spam or not was [Software Patents in Europe]

I thought this was relevant to everyone who writes a line of code. Forget=20
about marketing. Marketing isn't required, just distributing, for instance,=
=20
sending a line of code to a list to ask a question. Possibly? YOU! could=20
easily be breaking the law if this passes. In fact, I believe it will be=20
almost impossible for you not to break the law. And you certainly won't be=
=20
able to do anything useful with a computer and not break the law. Unless of=
=20
course you pay and pay and pay and pay and then pay some more. And guess=20
who is shoving truck loads (literally) of money at the so called=20
"representatives of the people" who are deciding this issue. Certainly not=
=20
those who don't want to pay.

I really hope it results in so many of the slimeballs of the world suing=20
each other for so long for so much money that they all end up broke and=20
paralyzed from their efforts, but I'm a dreamer :)


The announcement of the finishing of the shareware program was spam.

But I have a delete button and if it gets out of hand, I can unsubscribe.


ms



At 03:04 PM 9/30/03, you wrote:
>mar1a wrote:
>
>>In the next few days, the European Parliament will decide about the
>>legalisation and adoption of so-called "software patents" in Europe, which
>>are already used by large companies in other countries to put competitors
>>out of business. This can lead to the termination of many software=
 projects
>>at least within Europe, because the holders of the over 30,000 already
>>granted "software patents" (currently without a legal foundation) can=
 claim
>>exclusive rights and collect license fees for trivial things like=
 "progress
>>bars", "mouseclicks on online order forms", "scrolling within a window"=
 and
>>similar. That way, software developers will have to pay the
>>"software-patentholders" for using these features, even in their own,
>>completely self-developed applications, which can completely stall the
>>development of innovative software for small and medium companies. Apart
>>from this, the expense for patent inquiries and legal assistence is high,
>>for even trying to find out if the self-developed software is possibly
>>violating "software-patents", if you want to continue to market your
>>software. Contrary to real patents, "software-patents" are, in the current
>>draft, monopolization of business ideas and methods, even without any
>>tangible technical implementation.
>>Support NOW!!! : http://aktiv.ffii.org/eubsa/en
>
>Though this might seem spamish for newbies, this IS (was :D ) really=20
>serious. I truly recommend everyone to visit
>http://www.ffii.org
>for the latest news. You won't be disappointed :)
>
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