Posted at 07:50 on April 21st, 2004 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11140 | Are you sure? A patent on the human genes has already been granted, I'm just waiting for the bill of the license fees. So why not patent breathing as well? ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
Posted at 07:38 on April 21st, 2004 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Retired Gumby Posts: 964 | As far as I know, the problem is that many standard procedures (i.e. simple things that are necessary for programming and software) are protected by patents. In my opinion they are too general to patent them. I mean, no one can (hopefully) get a patent on "walking out of a door", right? |
Posted at 07:19 on April 21st, 2004 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11140 | So what don't you understand then? It's pretty clear to me... ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
Posted at 17:47 on April 20th, 2004 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Retired Gumby Posts: 740 | I checked one of the linked pages, and it was the site I had in mind when I was talking about them ranting about the problem without really saying what the problem was. ----- At the end of the day, you're left with a bent fork & a pissed off rhino. |
Posted at 02:43 on April 17th, 2004 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11140 | Well, the linked pages basically do say it all. Check out this one, it sums up the whole problem perfectly. ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
Posted at 12:32 on April 16th, 2004 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Retired Gumby Posts: 740 | *Shrug* I couldn't tell what it was all about. That page and all the sites it linked to spent all their time ranting about the problem, and no time stating what the problem actually was. (Not a very good way to run a protest.) Edited by Cypherswipe at 21:32 on April, 16th 2004 ----- At the end of the day, you're left with a bent fork & a pissed off rhino. |
Posted at 06:26 on April 16th, 2004 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Admin Reborn Gumby Posts: 11140 | It's actually 'just' an adoption of what (as far as I know) has been the case in the USA for some time already: the most trivial things in software being patented. The GIF disaster isn't such a good example, because that was actually about a compression technique and thus at least somewhat justifyable (?). Think along the lines of Amazon's one-click patent, someone's patent on scrollbars and all of these silly things. ----- Now you see the violence inherent in the system! |
Posted at 02:02 on April 16th, 2004 | Quote | Edit | Delete | |
Member Retired Gumby Posts: 740 | Looks like something similar to the gif patent shit is going on with many patents in europe, hard to sort through all the mumbo jumbo though to figure out what's really going on. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pierre.g/xnview/enhome.html In case that page gets changed or removed (it's supposed to be a 10 day protest, ending yesterday) http://allspark.net/cypherswipe/software-protest.html ----- At the end of the day, you're left with a bent fork & a pissed off rhino. |