9 Mar
2004
9 Mar
'04
4:40 p.m.
Hi again,
On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Thierry Coutelier wrote:
I you are a software engineer stop programming
immediately.
Writing a line of code may infringe some obscure patent and
you may go to jail because of this.
They have lost their mind...
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l33t anyway - your message has beat Heise and SlashDot by
far, also nothing as yet on ffii.org.
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Heise has got it by now:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/45368
Seems like the socialist (comment about Evelyne Gebhardt) want
to make sure that the software patent stuff gets invalidated
with the second go around at the parliament of the "computer-
implemented inventions" thingie.
Hard times ahead though for those infringing on copyrights,
private people will get treated same as commercial copiers.
Nothing as yet on /.
Greets Eric