New Zealand's IT industry also recently expressed concerns that the NZ government would acquiesce to reintroducing software patent protections under regulations potentially to be imposed by the TPP.
According to the FSFE, software patents for Europe are currently being pushed forward actively by a lobby gathering around the European patent office and the Business Software Alliance(BSA), which represents the interests of the largest US companies.
Software patents are a vicious and absurd system that puts all software developers in danger of being sued by companies they have never heard of, as well as by all the megacorporations in the field.
The German and French socialist parties are using the delay as an opportunity to raise MEPs' awareness of the issues surrounding software patents ahead of the late-September plenary session.
Software patents Finally I would like to approach the topic of patents on software that I already wrote about in July 1999 under the caption"Licenses and Patents..
If you haven't signed the Eurolinux-Petition[14] yet, you should do this as soon as possible in order to support the movement against software patents in Europe.
As well as a wide-ranging discussion of developments in Free Software licencing the interview covers issues including the history and current activities of the FSF, the spread of DMCA-like laws around the world, software patents and the need for free device drivers.
But the €30m project, dubbed LiMux, hit numerous delays after a dispute over software patents, extended contractual negotiations and a 12-month extension to the project pilot phase.
Since the press tends to simplify things and sometimes misinterprets them, it's time for me to talk about the situation of Software Patents and Free Software in my own words.
Chavez states,"One thing that we are very seriously taking a look at is the question of software patents, and whether in fact the patent system as it currently exists is the right system to incent innovation and really promote consumer-friendly policies.".
However whilst Smith and the FSF concentrate their fire on Oracle, Google is also criticized for not taking a clear position against software patents, and for building Android on top of the Apache Licensed Harmony instead of IcedTea, another GPL licensed implementation based on Sun's original code.
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