Re: sarge and software patents

2005-07-02 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
Joe wrote: Guillaume TESSIER wrote: This threat went bad. I never thought that what I like could be bethreated like this by our own politicans. People that are elected by us to work for our wealth and security. I just feel really disapointed by the way things turning. I hope we gonna have

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-07-02 Thread Joe
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: This threat went bad. I never thought that what I like could be bethreated like this by our own politicans. People that are elected by us to work for our wealth and security. I just feel really disapointed by the way things turning. I hope we gonna have good surprise

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-07-01 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:21:33AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Geoff Thurman wrote: > > >But isn't he right, at the end of the day, to be concerned about > >software patents? > > > Yes. > > >And I would have thought this list was exactly the > >right place for a discussion of these issues. > > > No

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-07-01 Thread Kent West
Geoff Thurman wrote: >But isn't he right, at the end of the day, to be concerned about >software patents? > Yes. >And I would have thought this list was exactly the >right place for a discussion of these issues. > Not so much, no. A better place would be debian-legal (http://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-07-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Geoff Thurman on 01/07/05 11:50, wrote: But isn't he right, at the end of the day, to be concerned about software patents? Are the large companies not going to use the legislation in the same way McDonalds used the libel law? Personally I find the way politics is run these days far more obscene t

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-07-01 Thread Geoff Thurman
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 03:36:18PM -0500, Steve Block wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > >Kent West wrote: > > > >>Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>My little sister could register on a web site. > >>> > >>> > >> > >>and > >> > >> > >> > >

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
Steve Block wrote: Please stop or take your comments to slashdot, where they belong. Steve, you're right : this comment should belong to Slashdot. I know this mailing list is much more made for technical purpose. However, this is the technic that is bethreated by software patents. I'am not

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Steve Block
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 10:25:47PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Kent West wrote: Guillaume TESSIER wrote: My little sister could register on a web site. and If tomorrow my job is to migrate Linux plateforms onto windows, then i'll feel like and will soon be unemployed.

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Guillaume TESSIER wrote: >> > > There is a huge misinformation campaign to make deputies think software > patents are necessary for innovation. > Many people are mooving. Like writing letters to their deputies and to > newspapers. > > The more peo

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
Kent West wrote: Guillaume TESSIER wrote: My little sister could register on a web site. and If tomorrow my job is to migrate Linux plateforms onto windows, then i'll feel like and will soon be unemployed. Realizing that different cultures have different concepts of "f

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Kent West
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > My little sister could register on a web site. and > If tomorrow my job is to migrate Linux plateforms onto windows, then > i'll feel like and will soon be unemployed. Realizing that different cultures have different concepts of "foul language", this is just a remi

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
Adam Hardy wrote: I tried to register myself on the German anti-software-patent site, but failed - I can't remember why, Fine Adam. Your "tried to register on the anti-software-patent site, but failed". You're really that kind of person that make software patents would happen. My little

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: > Adam Hardy wrote: > >> >> I tried to register myself on the German anti-software-patent site, >> but failed - I can't remember why, > > > Fine Adam. > > Your "tried to register on the anti-software-patent site, but failed". > > You're really that kind of person that

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Guillaume TESSIER on 29/06/05 18:05, wrote: Guillaume TESSIER wrote: The release of sarge stable just comes up some weeks before European Union could vote for extented patentability of software. I guess a lot of packages from sarge are made from gnu projects that could be really endanger.

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Marty
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Marty wrote: Therefore the obvious answer I think, is to set up servers in locations that are free of such laws. And even in the unlikely event that all countries outlaw some kinds of software (e.g. via treaties) there have been proposals for dealing with that as well.

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
Marty wrote: ress the root problem. IMNSHO there will always be some countries that outlaw some kinds of free software, but it's unlikely that all countries will outlaw any kinds of free software. Marty, i'm speaking about the European Union. This ain't 2 or 3 countries. This is the whole w

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 08:05:22PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Steve Block wrote: On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:05:33PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Guillaume TESSIER wrote: The release of sarge stable just comes up some weeks before European Union could vote for extented patentability

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Joe
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: The release of sarge stable just comes up some weeks before European Union could vote for extented patentability of software. I guess a lot of packages from sarge are made from gnu projects that could be really endanger. If some projects are attacked by lawyers and h

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Marty
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: But patents aren't really about software? Uh? I guess there is some european debian users here : you're concerned more than ever. Your favorite system, your favorite apps, your skills and future jobs are in danger. Why spend time getting more skills on a system whic

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Tony Godshall
... > I guess there is some european debian users here : you're concerned more > than ever. Your favorite system, your favorite apps, your skills and > future jobs are in danger. > > Why spend time getting more skills on a system which might die? Debian and other free software will survive by

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Steve Block
On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 07:05:33PM +0200, Guillaume TESSIER wrote: Guillaume TESSIER wrote: The release of sarge stable just comes up some weeks before European Union could vote for extented patentability of software. I guess a lot of packages from sarge are made from gnu projects that could

Re: sarge and software patents

2005-06-29 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
Guillaume TESSIER wrote: The release of sarge stable just comes up some weeks before European Union could vote for extented patentability of software. I guess a lot of packages from sarge are made from gnu projects that could be really endanger. If some projects are attacked by lawyers and

sarge and software patents

2005-06-28 Thread Guillaume TESSIER
The release of sarge stable just comes up some weeks before European Union could vote for extented patentability of software. I guess a lot of packages from sarge are made from gnu projects that could be really endanger. If some projects are attacked by lawyers and have to close down, what h