Christian Leber wrote:
On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 08:38:18PM -0400, Paul Chvostek wrote:I believe this is not true. My understanding is that SCO's legal action against IBM is with regard to "misappropriation of trade secrets", and its warnings to the rest of the Linux-using world is that further legal action may be taken with regard to "intellectual property violations".SCO has _nothing_ to do with softwarepatents in europe. Read: http://swpat.ffii.org/ Especially the horror collection: http://swpat.ffii.org/patents/index.en.html
...and the action which prompted Knopper.net to demonstrate its opposition to software patents is documented here....
http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/BigDemo27aug and here http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/demo0819/Sept 1st2003 is a day for judgement/decision in the European arena for the proposed software patent directive.
Software is not currently patentable in Europe.Unfortunately the simple issue seems to have been complicated beyond the comprehensive ability of most european legislators it is important everyone in a position to approach their MEPs, voice any concerns.
IBM is the one with the largest 'war chest' of software patents (legal only in the US)SCO is a non issue, they would have a really hard time in court to do anything against endusers in europe.
http://swpat.ffii.org/players/ibm/index.en.html Best wishes, Ramanan _______________________________________________ debian-knoppix mailing list debian-knoppix@linuxtag.org http://mailman.linuxtag.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-knoppix