Subject: RE: [linux-audio-dev] Software patents ... was EVO legal status
From: STEFFL, ERIK *Internet* (SBCSI) ("STEFFL,)
Date: Wed Jan 16 2002 - 21:02:01 EET
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joachim Backhaus [mailto:jbackhaus_AT_pironet-ndh.com]
>
> I'm living in germany / europe does that mean
> that I can ignore the US patents since we
> have a different patent system???
> (I think it's not going that way)
>
> Fuck software patents.
>
> Regards
> Joachim
>
> PS: But if no one knows that I use patented technology ... ;)
> Perhaps we can provide patented source code on T-Shirts
> like de-css :D.
I don't think it would make much difference, the de-css was about trade
secret (it's not trade secret anymore when it gets out) but this is a
patent, it is public already...
erik
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