No angle on the European situation?

No angle on the European situation?

Posted Sep 24, 2009 12:33 UTC (Thu) by ber (subscriber, #2142)
Parent article: LinuxCon: Keeping open source open

What about software-patents in other parts of the world? What about the possible effects on GNU/Linux? The US-situation seems to be a heavy disadvantage especially for people there.

Helping to invalidate patents is helping the pro-patent lobby in my view. One main argument for patent is that they would be harmless if it wasn't for the bad, trivial patents. This holds on to the idea that just evaluation of patent applications needs fixing - not the system itself.

BTW: It would be really interesting to make the distinction between Linux (the famous kernel) and operating systems based on it and their components. Does OIN also protect the other Free Software components within a operating system, e.g. the C-library or is it only about the kernel?

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