[linux-audio-dev] EU software patents?

[hexe_2003 at directbox.com]

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From: kouhia at nic.funet.fi
To  : linux-audio-dev at music.columbia.edu;linux-graphics-dev at music.columbia.edu
Date: 24.09.2003 12:07:26

Hello. Can anyone report what is going on with the EU software patents?
How they would affect immediately the audio and graphics development
we are doing? Xine? Sodipodi? Others?
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Well, they'd affect everything; Software patents (or "logical algorythmic patents")
are a disaster. You know the status bar in an Installing application like "Install Shield 
Wizzard" ? Well, with these patents ONE firm could own these structure; EVERY other
application would use this kind of algorythmic would be forbidden .... .

greetz, sascha retzki

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