On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 10:45:03PM +0200, Davide Inglima, limaCAT wrote:
> Joerg Wendland wrote:
> >Bruce Perens, on 2002-09-16, 19:15, you wrote:
>
> >>http://www.softwarechoice.org/download_files/Maccrisken.Letter.doc .
>
> >Here you are:
>
> >joerg@joergland:~/tmp$ md5sum Maccrisken.Letter.doc
> >cc13acf991915d89c89438a9e4c1709a Maccrisken.Letter.doc
> >joerg@joergland:~/tmp$ strings Maccrisken.Letter.doc | tail -12
> >To the Editor:
> >Peter Passell
> >Normal.dot
> >Michael Wendy
> >Microsoft Word 9.0
> >Milken Institute
> >To the Editor:
> >Title
> >_PID_HLINKS
> >Microsoft Word Document
> >MSWordDoc
> >Word.Document.8
>
> This is the first case where the bad habit of adding hidden
> informations to the files for controlling the source of a
> document, retorts against the control freaks themselves :)
Well, not quite... About the European Union directive proposal for
software patentability:
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat0202/intro/index.en.html
| Now what is this European Community Directive Proposal about
| and how did BSA get in there?
|
| The final version of the document was adopted by the European
| Commission on the morning of 2002-02-20 and published at noon
| of that day on the web page of the Industrial Property Unit
| together with an press release and an FAQ.
|
| An almost completely identical directive draft proposal
| started circulating among national government officials in mid
| february. Although it is dated 2001, knowledgable people said
| that it was "hot off the presses from
| Brussels". Interestingly, the MSWord document contained a
| hidden author's field with the name Francisco Mingorance. This
| indicates that he has at least revised the text on his
| machine, and further evidence suggests that he played a major
| role in the drafting.
|
| [...]
|
| Francisco Mingorance, director of the European public policy
| for the Business Software Alliance, an association
| representing such U.S. giants as International Business
| Machines Corp. and Microsoft Corp [...]
Regards,
alceste, lurking on debian-devel@ :-)
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