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811.
Unitary Software Patents bill has now entered the Bundestag(bristowsupc.com)
1 points by zoobab 6y ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 6y ago
Kapow is great to transform shell scripts in web apps: https://github.com/BBVA/kapow
813.
by zoobab 6y ago
NSA has already a copy you cannot delete.
814.
by zoobab 6y ago
2050 is mathematically warmer, with climate lag 2050 is already worse then now.
815.
by zoobab 6y ago
Back to the Amish way of life. That will work out, but people will have to go out of their confort zone.
816.
Kappos propose to restore software patents via Covid stimulus bill(morningconsult.com)
2 points by zoobab 6y ago|0 comments
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by zoobab 6y ago
Github is non-free.
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by zoobab 6y ago
Money goes to the state cofins, not to the victims.
819.
European Parliament wants to extend software patents to AI [pdf](europarl.europa.eu)
1 points by zoobab 6y ago|0 comments
820.
by zoobab 6y ago
The first binary blob you boot on a Pi is based on ThreadX, a proprietary OS now bought by Microsoft. And this binary blob fucks up the thermal control as well.
821.
by zoobab 6y ago
Here is the source of the emails: i@am.com
822.
by zoobab 6y ago
Ban Javascript, program server side and output simple HTML and CSS.
823.
by zoobab 6y ago
"An idea implemented in a computer program is." Not according to EPC art52.2 (in Europe). And not according to Alice jurisprudence (in the US). But the patent lobby, including the patent offices, are at work trying to destroy thos
824.
by zoobab 6y ago
In the case of the UPC, the court fees to invalidate a patent are already at 20K EUR. Not to mention the additional lawyers fees.
825.
by zoobab 6y ago
The actual percentage of cross-border litigation, now that the UK has left, is around 7% of all cases. 93% of cases are national only, and will suffer from an increase of costs just for the beauty of having a pan-European court. For the leg
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by zoobab 6y ago
People need to get out of their seat, which is hard.
827.
by zoobab 6y ago
Yes, it will be impossible to change. It will prevent states from issuing national clarifications to patent law on software patents for example. And the European Parliament won't be the legislator on patent law, as the EU is not member
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by zoobab 6y ago
"opposed on public policy grounds, i.e. negative effects software patents and increased cost of litigation (and maybe that should've been done during the negotiations on the treaty)." Problem is that the Court Fees were decid
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by zoobab 6y ago
@chki "Especially in Germany where there is an important pending decision by the Constitutional Court on this issue which did actually get a lot of media attention." The decision is from 20th of March, where the Court only cancell
830.
by zoobab 6y ago
On EU democracy, maybe you need to write another chapter about the Council of Ministers. In this particular file of the UPCA, Ministers have a direct conflict of interests, as their ministries would get money for the renewal fees of t
831.
by zoobab 6y ago
The violation of the Rule of Law in Poland and Hungary is exactly what it is about here. We have a rogue administration (the EPO) which cannot be brought to court: "4. UPCA is violating the “rule of law” (TFEU Art2), the EPO cannot be
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by zoobab 6y ago
This is what several lawyers told me, people are making a fuss about the UK breaking the Withdrawal Agreement, but other countries do the same in other fields.
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by zoobab 6y ago
"a new judicial body in the EU" Not really, more like an international court with the blessing of the EU. Cameron forced a deal in 2012 to not have the CJEU as a legislator in patent law, and Merkel and Hollande and other countrie
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by zoobab 6y ago
For a more general document, read FFII submission to a public consultation: https://ffii.org/ffii-oppose-the-third-attempt-to-impose-sof...
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by zoobab 6y ago
The software patent directive of 2005 was rejected at the request for multinationals (IBM, Philips, Microsoft, etc...) who pushed for a central patent instead. Some other countries have ratified, some like Spain, Poland, Czech republic have
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Germany will violate international agreements with Unitary Patent, says FFII(ffii.org)
403 points by zoobab 6y ago|277 comments
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by zoobab 6y ago
WCH CH552G programmable chip is 30 cents: http://www.zoobab.com/ch552g-blink
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by zoobab 6y ago
I propose a glass container as a replacement.
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GUIs now patentable in Switzerland using the technical effect loophole(ipkitten.blogspot.com)
3 points by zoobab 6y ago|0 comments
840.
UK considering extending software patents to Artificial Intelligence(gov.uk)
1 points by zoobab 6y ago|0 comments

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