Re: [ITPOLITIK] UN Summit Tones Down Open-Source Stanc

[Erik Josefsson <sslug@sslug>]

On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 17:12, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:

> > Eller de eksisterende patenter fortsætter indtil de udløber.
> > Eller man laver en overgangsordning.
> 
> Jeg tror de fortsætter, men da de ikke kan krænkes af almindelige
> programmer, er den trojanske effekt taget ud af dem, og de vil ikke være
> virksomme over for almindelige Linux-programmer.

Philippe Aigrain siger så her:

"You will be told that the adopted amendments will deprive the owners of
tens of thousands of patents suddenly of their intellectual property.
Nothing could be further from the truth. One part of those patents
(those based on devices and physical processes) remain perfectly valid.
The others never were valid in the first place, and all you did was
pointing this out. But these patents will be able to stay peacefully in
the patent portfolios of the companies that hold them. It is only when
these companies try to abuse them to kill their competition or the
public domain to which these ideas belong, that the question of their
validity will arise."

http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/epet0929/aigrain/index.en.html

//Erik