[mrtg] Re: What the heck

[Cornwell, Eric J.]

I see what you mean.  It's pretty bad when a great product like MRTG is in
jeopardy because someone who makes a crap product has a "patent" on an idea.
So Sad!

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Valuikas [mailto:tvaluikas at cox.net]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 9:41 AM
To: Cornwell, Eric J.; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [mrtg] Re: What the heck


See this is what I am talking about. When you hit the MRTG site you get
this.... STINK!!!!!

Closed because of "Software-Patents"
In the next few days, the European Parliament will decide about the
legalisation and adoption of so-called "software patents" in Europe.
Software Patents are already used by large companies in other countries to
put competitors out of business. This can lead to the termination of many
software projects such as MRTG, at least within Europe.

The holders of the over 30,000 already granted "software patents" (currently
without a legal foundation) could claim exclusive rights and collect license
fees for trivial things like "progress bars", "mouseclicks on online order
forms", "scrolling within a window" and similar. Software developers will
have to pay the "software-patentholders" for using these features, even in
their own, self-developed applications. This has the potential of stalling
the development of innovative software for small and medium companies. Apart
from this, the cost for patent inquiries and legal assistence is high, even
for trying to find out if the self-developed software is possibly violating
"software-patents". Contrary to real patents, "software-patents" are, in the
current draft, monopolization of business ideas and methods, even without
any tangible technical implementation.

More about the current major problem at http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html








-----Original Message-----
From: mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:mrtg-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch]On
Behalf Of Cornwell, Eric J.
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 6:21 AM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] Re: What the heck


Wow.  Thanks for the link.  It seems things are starting to get out of
control...

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Valuikas [mailto:tvaluikas at cox.net]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 7:17 AM
To: Cornwell, Eric J.; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [mrtg] What the heck


Well the page is now gone. It was talking about this.
http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html

Tv


-----Original Message-----
From: Cornwell, Eric J. [mailto:EJCORNWELL at coopertire.com]
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 5:44 AM
To: 'Anthony Valuikas'; mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: RE: [mrtg] What the heck


What do you mean?  Everything looks like it did a few weeks ago.

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Valuikas [mailto:tvaluikas at cox.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:27 PM
To: mrtg at list.ee.ethz.ch
Subject: [mrtg] What the heck


Dang.... Been to the MRTG site lately???
Read the news...

dang!!!!

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