From: Bora (bora@portakalteknoloji.com)
Date: Mon 17 May 2004 - 23:47:42 EEST
Merhaba,
"Belden asagi vurma" lafi benimdi. Dedigim gibi, gerektiginde belden asagi
vurmayi da bilmeliyiz. :-)
Ancak AB soz konusu olunca biz su anda "izleyici" konumundayiz. Bakalim;
orada ne olacaksa cok kisa surede bize de sicrayacak.
Bora.
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Konu: [linux-sohbet] Yine Patent meselesi...
Tarih: 17-05-04 16:48
>
> Merhaba arkadaşlar,
>
> Aşağıda forwardlıyorum, yarın yine Avrupa Konseyi'nde yazılım patentleri
> oylanacak. Mandrake, bu duyuruda bulunmuş. Eski metinden bile daha kötü
> olduğu söyleniyor...
>
> Adamlar boş bırakmıyor, sürekli lobi yapoorlar... Şenlikte bir arkadaşın
> dediği gibi "Bu bir savaş, onlar belden aşağı vuruyorsa, sen de
> vuracaksın..."
>
> Bilemiyorum ne yapılınabilir ama, dikkatinize sunuyorum...
>
> İyi çalışmalar,
>
> Özer Tayiz.
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Mandrakelinux NWL: Software patents - fresh news and call for
> action
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:28:10 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Mandrakesoft Team <return@mandrakesoft.com>
> To: info@teknobilge.com
>
>
>
> Flash: Software patents - fresh news and call for action
>
> As a follow-up to our latest flash regarding the upcoming decision of
> the European Council to legalize software patentability in Europe,
> here are some fresh news and information on what you can do to help.
>
> If nothing changes, tomorrow, Tuesday May 18, the European Council,
> that is, the European body which represents all the governments of the
> European Union, will vote in favor of a directive that will legalize
> software patents in Europe. Last September, faced with a similar
> choice, the European Parliament voted major amendments to the
> directive text drafted by the European Commission, actually rejecting
> software patentability. However, the Council, ignoring all of these
> amendments, is going to vote in favor of a text that is even worse
> than the initial version of the Commission.
>
> Why can the Council take a decision which will be so harmful to the
> European software industry? Unlike the Parliament, which is a place
> open to the public, where Members of the European Parliament have
> had time to study the proposal and hear many positions on the issue
> in order to take a well-thought decision, the Council is a closed
> body where, due to the alledged complexity of the subject,
> representatives of the governments have handed out the file to
> committees of experts.
>
> These experts, who re-drafted the text and wrote position papers on
> why to vote it, are in fact mostly representatives from the national
> patent offices, backed by the heads of the legal departments of some
> big industrial companies, all of whom have a common interest: more
> patents mean more power for them, irrespective of the harm that will
> be done to the economy at large, and even to their own companies. In
> the name of "the Industry" and of "innovation", they
manipulated the
> political decision-makers to make them believe that the new text did
> not allow to patent pure software, that it was a good compromise between
> the Commission and Parliament texts, and that not all of the
> parliamentary amendments could be kept because some of them were
> illegal with respect to international treaties such as TRIPS. All of
> this is plain lie.
>
> In fact, if voted, the text of the Council would lead to a situation
> where big companies with large patent portfolios use these to lock
> their respective markets and prevent competition from innovative SMEs,
> and where "intellectual property" companies that do not create
any
> software use their own patent portfolios to collect license fee rents
> from everybody. This is the situation which is happening in the US,
> putting at risk its successful software industry. This is what may
> just happen in Europe in a few months.
>
> However, it is not too late. Because of growing pressure from computer
> professionals and from the public, and because they get more and more
> feed-back from the media, political decision-makers begin to get aware
> of the issues, and to have doubts about the sincerity of the patent
> lobby. In some countries, they have taken the file back from the
> patent offices
> http://lwn.net/Articles/85379/
> http://kwiki.ffii.org/?SwpatcninoEn
> and some countries of the Council have just decided to switch from a
> voting procedure without debate to a voting procedure with debate,
> as the text gets less and less consensus among the members of the
> European Union.
>
> You can convince even more of them to reject software patentability.
> In order to do that, please take some time to read about the issues
> at stake, and spread the information across your friends and business
> contacts, the press, your members of the parliament and your government.
> It is essential that elected policy makers get back into command of the
> situation and do not leave the patent offices decide alone.
>
> Here are some texts which can help you to present the issues to the
> media and to convince policy-makers of all countries of the European
> Union.
>
> A very readable analysis by François Pellegrini explaining
> the legal and economic issues of software patentability:
> http://www.abul.org/article191.html
>
> A thorough analysis by Jonas Maebe of the difference between
> the three versions of the directive, and why software patents
> are indeed illegal with respect to TRIPS:
> http://www.elis.ugent.be/~jmaebe/swpat/councilanalysis/paper-en.pdf
>
> Positions of the member countries of the European Union:
> http://swpat.ffii.org/akteure/ (add "pt", "ie",
"fr",
> "de", "be", "gr", etc to have the positions
of the
> member countries)
>
> The page of the FFII giving some directions for actions:
> http://kwiki.ffii.org/?LtrSmePolit0405En
>
> A recent paper published in the Washington Post describing the
> current situation in the United States:
> "Patenting Air or Protecting Property? Information Age Invents a New
Problem"
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A54548-2003Dec10?language=printer
>
> 31 companies sued for using the JPEG image format (the plaintiff
> filed for a patent while recommending the adoption in international
> bodies of a standard including its patented technology):
>
http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,63200,00.html%3Ftw%3Dwn_bizhead_1
>
> A US company sues companies of on-line content distribution:
> http://www.e-data.com/
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5205529.html
> http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5144097.html
>
> A well-documented file on the reference site Law.com:
> http://www.law.com/jsp/statearchive.jsp?type=Article&oldid=ZZZV4RVSSPC
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> Mandrakesoft Online Team.
>
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