[ubuntu-uk] Linspire and MS deal

Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com
Sat Jun 16 19:29:47 BST 2007


On 14/06/07, Mark Harrison <Mark at yourpropertyexpert.com> wrote:
> It's worth remembering in all this that Canonical has some huge
> advantages in NOT being based in the US.
>
> There are three massive differences between Patent law in the US and
> Patent law in Europe. One of them is that there are a whole bunch of
> things (software mainly) that ARE patentable in the US, but cannot be
> patented in Europe.
>

I agree with the rest of what you said, Mark, but software can be
patented in Europe. The circumstances are much more limited than in
the US, but it's not a definite 'cannot'.

Just FYI.

Hwyl,
Neil.



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