[MPlayer-dev-eng] Software patentability rejected

[Attila Kinali]

On Wed, 06 Jul 2005 17:55:30 +0200
Nico Sabbi <nsabbi at email.it> wrote:

> Sometimes there are excellent news, after all :)

Not bad, but also not good.
Or to quote myself:
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From: Attila Kinali <attila at kinali.ch>
To: vlc-devel at videolan.org
Subject: Re: [vlc-devel] Excellent News on Software Patents
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:57:54 +0200

It's not bad, but that doesn't make it good. Please note
that because there is now no directive at all that the current
practice will be continued. This means that although most countries
do not legaly accept patents on software, that they are still
granted and can be enforced. Of course it would be possible
to invalidate them in curt, but who does have the money for
such a battle ? Especialy if this battle has to be fought
in every country over and over again ?
Especialy the people around videolan should know what
that means, the whole libdca case isn't that old.

Yes, it's true, we didn't lose the war, we don't have
software patents yet, but we haven't won it yet.
We did not even win the battle. It's nothing
more than a stalemate.

We have to continue our fight until the whole threat is forever gone.
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			Attila Kinali

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