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EPO says the term "software" is ambiguous and prefers to use tautology for more
clarity
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| Maybe the European Patent Office has a different dictionary than I have.
|
| [...]
|
| Nevertheless, their high quality propaganda falls down once you start to
| mention some trivial software patents, such as the progress bar:
|
| [...]
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| or the contextual menu granted to Philips:
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http://www.digitalmajority.org/forum/t-76937/epo-says-the-term-software-is-ambiguous-and-prefers-to-use-tautology-for-more-clarity
Write patents, get tax cuts
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| As of 1 January 2008, the Belgian government introduced a tax deduction
| of 80 % with unlimited carry forward under the corporate income tax for
| income derived from patents licensed by a company based in Belgium.
|
| Now, who said patents are bad? They make you save 80% on taxes. How on earth
| can it be bad?
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http://mikhailian.livejournal.com/23009.html
Recent:
EU Says Governments Could Bar Microsoft From Bidding
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| Governments contracting IT work could conclude that Microsoft's antitrust
| history constitutes "grave professional misconduct" and ban the company,
| according to the European Commission.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147175/eu_says_governments_could_bar_microsoft_from_bidding.html
EU: Europarlement testing Ubuntu, OpenOffice and Firefox
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| The European Parliament's IT department is testing the use of GNU/Linux
| distribution Ubuntu, OpenOffice, Firefox and other Open Source applications,
| the British MEP James Nicholson explained last week in a letter to Italian
| MEP Marco Cappato.
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http://ec.europa.eu/idabc/en/document/7565
Is Microsoft Now Banned from EU Contracts?
http://www.computerworlduk.com/toolbox/open-source/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=697&blogid=14
EC probes OOXML standards-setting process
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| A spokesman for the European Commissioner for Competition, Neelie Kroes, told
| The Register that regulators were continuing to scrutinise interoperability
| issues related to Microsoft’s products following complaints from the
| Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS) group.
|
| As part of that process, the EC formally contacted a number of national
| standards bodies, including the Norwegian Standards Institute (NSI),
| requesting more details about possible irregularities in the OOXML
| standardisation process.
|
| [...]
|
| “It must be stressed that it is not the Commission's intention to influence
| the outcome of this process, but the Commission considers it essential to
| ensure that European competition law is not violated in the course of the
| standard setting process,” he said in an email to El Reg.
|
| In January the EC began formal anti-trust probes against Microsoft in two
| cases where it was alleged that the multinational firm had abused its strong
| market position. As part of the investigation into the first case, the
| Commission said that it would scrutinise OOXML on the grounds that the
| specification doesn't work with those of competitors.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/04/ooxml_ec_investigation_iso/
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