Je suis en train de lire en diagonale le document, on y parle d'EuroLinux, de logiciel libre, et ils opposent à ces petits courants "libres" de grandes associations de "professionnels" (UNICE, EICTA,EITSA). Pour jeter le discrédit sur le logiciel libre, on ne peut pas faire plus odieux. Je cite :
"The individual responses were dominated by supporters of open source software, whose views ranged from wanting no patents for software at all to the "official" position of the Eurolinux Alliance which is to oppose patents for software running on general-purpose computers. On the other hand, submissions broadly in support of the approach of the consultation paper tended to come from regional or sectoral organisations representing large numbers of companies of all sizes, such as UNICE, the Union of Industrial and Employer's Confederations of Europe, EICTA, the European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association, and the European IT Services Association. There were also individual large organisations, other industry associations and IP professionals. Thus although the responses in this category were numerically much fewer that those supporting the open source approach, there seems little doubt that the balance of economic weight taking into account total jobs and investment involved is in favour of harmonisation along the lines suggested in the paper."
Je n'ai pas le temps de traduire, mais l'idée est là : "bien que les supporters du logiciel libre aient beaucoup fait parler d'eux, leur poids économique est négligeable, et donc leur opinion compte pour du beurre" (traduction libre).
# Le logiciel libre compte pour du beurre !!!!
Posté par Ludovic Boisseau . En réponse à la dépêche Brevets logiciels: Découverte d'une collusion entre la BSA et la Commission Européenne. Évalué à 10.
"The individual responses were dominated by supporters of open source software, whose views ranged from wanting no patents for software at all to the "official" position of the Eurolinux Alliance which is to oppose patents for software running on general-purpose computers. On the other hand, submissions broadly in support of the approach of the consultation paper tended to come from regional or sectoral organisations representing large numbers of companies of all sizes, such as UNICE, the Union of Industrial and Employer's Confederations of Europe, EICTA, the European Information and Communications Technology Industry Association, and the European IT Services Association. There were also individual large organisations, other industry associations and IP professionals. Thus although the responses in this category were numerically much fewer that those supporting the open source approach, there seems little doubt that the balance of economic weight taking into account total jobs and investment involved is in favour of harmonisation along the lines suggested in the paper."
Je n'ai pas le temps de traduire, mais l'idée est là : "bien que les supporters du logiciel libre aient beaucoup fait parler d'eux, leur poids économique est négligeable, et donc leur opinion compte pour du beurre" (traduction libre).