Something about my country... :-D

[}TCP{aLICe]

Just read, think, discuss.

http://www.gnu.org/thankpoland.html
http://thankpoland.info/

And why:
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/b ... bshop.html
http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html

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Any reply?
Doesn't matter. I hopy you read it all.

[Taz]

its to much :O

[}TCP{Cee]

I guess thats good news for ppl who program or do websites or whatever..so not me
Now if Poland would donate me 1 million bucks, that'd be good news :O

[Hyper]

I read it at Tweakers.net. I still don't fully understand what's the software patents all about, and what's so bad about it.

[}TCP{Ramses]

I think I read somewhere that patents would be bad because developers would have to pay royalties for using a basic concept (eg FPS) that had been registered even if they developed their own code, so it would probably restrict development of new games and mods of existing games.

So good news for everyone (including Cee) that it has been stopped:) and bad news for the industry giants like Microsoft who would end up with most of the patents.

But I might be wrong

[}TCP{aLICe]

I still don't fully understand what's the software patents all about, and what's so bad about it.

Check links I have posted!

Quick reference to understand why:
http://webshop.ffii.org/
Owner of such shop should have to pay for each used patent!

[Hyper]

Interesting. (software) Patents can be a good thing to protect expensive research and developemnt from competitors. But when you can patent idiotic things like tabbed buttons, it's going to be a pain in the ass.