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On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:58:15PM +0100, Vincent Penquerc'h wrote:
> > did someone already check whether allegro not hurt any patent claims ?
>
> It probably does. Searching would take years, no ?
> I remember Apple has a patent on alpha blending IIRC.
Do you have done any attempts to protect us from software patents ?
Upon your adress, I assume, you're sitting in the UK.
You should probably know, that in Europe Software Patents are
illegal (but nevertheless > 30.000 of them - mostly very trivial and
broad have been granted - against the law). Now the European Commission,
more concrete: some people around Arlene McCarthy - British Labour (!)
are doing very strong efforts for legalizing those illegal software patents.
We of FFII/Eurolinux are fighting against this:
[ ] http://patinfo.ffii.org/
[ ] http://swpat.ffii.org/
[ ] http://petition.eurolinux.org/
We need every little help to prevent the disaster of software patents
from Europa.
cu
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