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Archive 7. March 2005
EU Council of Ministers for Compromise on Software Patents
Unbelievable - despite the resistance of various national parliaments and the clear vote of the European Parliament, the software patents directive was pushed through today. And then this corrupt and deceitful bunch wonders why citizens no longer take politics seriously when they trample democracy underfoot.
Disgusting, Mr. Clement, how you ignore and trample the clear request of the Bundestag. Disgusting how you, with your arrogance, think you have to cause more damage to the economic location than the 16 years of Kohl's government managed to achieve. Disgusting how you, with your stupidity, drive another nail into the coffin of the European IT industry - just to crawl up to some multinational corporations that won't create any jobs anyway.
Munich Regional Court Bans Link to Copy Software Manufacturer
Munich Regional Court bans link to copy software manufacturer - and Heise celebrates this as an important partial success. However, the court has only rejected the completely absurd demands - but the link itself must be removed. Well, one might be glad that not all the most outrageous demands of the music industry are being met, but the fact that links to manufacturers are illegal is still a big idiocy. Because this continues to open the door for link warning letters - and even if it's nice for the Heise publishing house that every page bears its own court costs, for the average web worker this is not realistic - hardly anyone has the money to pay the costs of such a procedure (and possibly even through several instances).
OSER is a project that aims to replace Exchange while keeping Outlook. Although I don't like Outlook as one of the biggest virus and trojan vectors, it is popular in companies because of its good integration of various information services. Switching to an open source server solution can be the first step to gradually replace Outlook with other programs. However, at the moment it is still mainly vaporware - at least if you look at the websites.
Top-Level Domain .at has no mandatory connection to Austria
Top Level Domain .at has no mandatory connection to Austria - because German judges think so. Unless you live in Switzerland - then the judges have a different opinion. All this nonsense about naming rights is simply ridiculous - arbitrariness would almost be a reliable alternative against all the judgments that have been made in Europe on this matter.
A similarly absurd justification - that a top-level domain does not stand for a country - was also brought up with .ag. There, the judges even dared to determine that only an AG has the right to a domain under .ag.
The controversial vehicle registration plate patent has been declared invalid - take a good look at this nonsense, we'll probably have to deal with more of this thanks to proles like Clement. And no, we can't be sure that such patents will be deleted.