On Monday 27 December 2004 14:49, David Mandelberg wrote: > cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) wrote: > > as current EU legislation explicitly forbids software-patents[1] none > > of those are currently legal. _If_ we loose the current legaslitive > > battle that might change, but sofar we seem to be winning (be it with > > some close calls countering the underhanded maneuvers of the > > pro-patent lobby). > Even though they're illegal, the amount of money it takes to *prove* that > to a patent court is more than most F/OSS projects have. IANAL, but _all_ software patents are _explicitly_ forbidden by current legislation (in the EU), anybody suing a software project for violating their patent is clearly saying their patent covers software. (and thus is illegal) Seems extremely clearcut to me, and I can't imagine it taking long (and thus costing much) to get this thrown out of court. -- Cheers, cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis) 1. Encrypted mail preferred (GPG KeyID: 0x86624ABB) 2. Plain-text mail recommended since I move html and double format mails to a low priority folder (they're mainly spam)
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