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the symlink command is
ln -s /usr/java/path/to/'plugin' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/'plugin'
Isn't there a period "." missing in the end, or just the absolute path to the mozilla plugins directory?
Something like:
ln -s /usr/java/path/to/'plugin' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/'plugin' .
or:
ln -s /usr/java/path/to/'plugin' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/'plugin' /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
I guess you could put the link in either /usr/lib/mozilla or /usr/lib/mozilla-1.4. At elast my mozilla 1.3.1 seems to find and use all plugins found in either or both those directories.
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Thanks for your answers, but sill no luck... yet.
bvc:
Running Mozilla from a terminal gives absolutelly nothing. It just closes when trying to access a webmail or forum page.
Galeon gives no output/errors on the terminal, but does show a message-window saying 'segmentation fault'. Also gives a link to the GNOME bug-report site, but that doesn't work either. So nest, you press 'Ok' and it closes.
chris z:
By the time I used urpmi.update, I had also updated my Java version to 1.4.2_02. Got back to 1.4.1_03, but still no luck.
I haven't checked Mozilla's support page yet, but I will when I get some time.
Again, thanks for your answers.
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Since I issued "urpmi.update --auto-select" (successfully), I started having problems with both Mozilla and Gaelon (I gues this one for sharing stuff from the first). They crash when loging in a Webmail or php forum (like this one ;). Konqueror and Links still work fine.
I use Mandrake 9.1 and FluxBox.
Trying to update Mozilla and/or libnss3 to the 9.2 versions (or the Cooker's) doesn't work - I didn't have any source for them installed when I issued urpmi-update, so the current install is still a 9.1. I get some error on account of dependencies -package "don't-remember-what" can't be retrieved.
Any thoughts? :unsure:
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Everyone I know (not many :) ) use either Yahoo! Messenger and/or MSN, so I use Gaim, as besides those two I also use AIM.
Never came across kopete...
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I can translate to/from portuguese, english and french. Maybe also from spanish, but not to...
Use my personal information to contact me.
Perhaps a chance to make a contribution to Linux...
WARNING: Probably not available until January. Certainly not before December 18th.
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Yeap, very nice screenshots.
I use fluxbox myself. blackbox's ok too, and smaller ;)
took a look at openbox3. liked the general look. You can use a graphical tool called obconf to configure it, but no luck with the menus there - and xml is just chinese to me.
PS: I'm an end-user.
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Actually, as of now, I'd settle with full maildir interoperability, That is between balsa's maildir and Kmail's maildir... :?
The thing is, Kmail won't read my balsa's maildir sub-directories. Just the top-level ones. How can I fix this?
Thanks,
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Hello again,
I'd very much like to comment on the last posts, but, as I said, I have no time now... Still, I came by to share, with those of you who haven't signed FFII's newsletters, their latest (not the only one since the one that started this topic). So here it goes:
FFII News -- For Immediate Release -- Please Redistribute+++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++
EU Software Patent Directive plans shelved amid massive
demonstrations
Brussels 2003/09/01
For Immediate Release
On Aug 28th, the European Parliament postponed its vote on the
proposed
EU Software Patent Directive. The day before, approximately 500
persons
had gathered for a rally beside the Parliament in Brussels,
accompanied
by an online demonstration involving more than 2000 websites. The
events
in and near the Parliament were extensively in many news channels,
including tv and radio, across Europe and the world. Within a few
days,
the petition calling the European Parliament to reject software
patentability accumulated 50,000 new signatures.
Details
Last Wednesday, August 27th, several organisations called for a
demonstration in Brussels and for an on-line demonstration against
the
proposed EU "software patent directive" COM(2002)92, euphemistically
titled "on the patentability of computer-implemented inventions".
Citizens demonstrated in front of the European Parliament, wearing
black
t-shirts and launching black balloons "to symbolise their sorrow for
the
innovation that the EU would lose if it approved a monopoly regime
on
computer based solutions as the Commission and the JURI report
propose",
as one of the organisers explained. Surrounded by banners and patent
tombstones, several speeches were held and a pantomime play was
performed
which showed the EU bureaucracy helping wealthy corporations to
strangle
small innovative software enterprises.
In spite of the short notice (it was only announced one week in
advance),
the online demonstration, calling to substitute homepages by a
protest
page for all of Wednesday, was followed by over 2800 websites. Among
those were important websites such as those of the biggest Spanish
labour
union Comisiones Obreras, the Andalusian CGT union, the French
SPECIS;
large associations of computer professionals such as ATI.es, AI2 and
Prosa.dk; user associations like SSLUG, Hispalinux, Asociación de
Internautas, AFUL and GUUG; software projects like Apache
(developers of
the most used web server in the world, with over 25 million
installations), PHP (a very popular programing language), the two
main
free desktop projects (KDE and GNOME); operating system
distributions
LinEx, Slackware, Debian, Knoppix and Mandrake; civil rights
associations, distributed development platform Savannah (hosting
over
1500 projects), companies, weblogs, personal websites...
The strike coincided with initiatives by new players, including
national
associations of SMEs, national labor unions, the internet sections
of the
French Parti Socialiste and German Social Democratic Party, and a
[16]group of economists, all of whom sent letters to members of the
European Parliament, warning them of faulty reasoning in the JURI
report
and catastrophic consequences for the European economy.
The Parliament was already [17]divided in June, when it
[18]postponed
the decision to September. The massive protest among computer
professionals, software companies and computer users, and its echo
in
the press on the Internet, radio and television, appear to have
further eroded the directive's support in the European Parliament
and
encouraged various party groups to come out with new amendment
proposals. The presidents of the transnational groups decided in a
meeting on thursday afternoon to postpone the debate again from the
planned European Parliament plenary session of Monday September 1st.
The debate and vote may now take place in the next session
(September
22-25) or at a later date, subject to decision next week. The
directive has been controversial since its publication on
2002-02-20,
and decisions have been delayed already seven times from the
initially
scheduled vote of 2002-12-16.
During a conference in the European Parliament on Wednesday
14.00-16.00,
Reinier Bakels, a dutch law scholar who had written a study on the
directive at the order of the European Parliament, criticised:
This directive proposal brings no clarity and no harmonisation. It
is
unclear and contradictory both on its aims and on the means of
achieving these aims. The European Parliament can not be expected
to
repair such a fundamentally broken directive proposal. The best
thing
the Parliament can do is to send this proposal back to the
Commission
and demand that an interdisciplinary group of experts should work
out a
new proposal.
Hartmut Pilch, president of FFII and speaker of the Eurolinux
Alliance, agreed to this, but added:
We hope that MEPs can, during the coming 3 weeks, understand that
almost every single article and every single recital of this
directive
needs major amendments, if a clear limitation of patentability is
to be
achieved. We have proposed a set of amendments[26] which could do
the
job and has received backing by a large part ot the interested
communities[27]. Many of these amendments have already been or are
being tabled by MEPs from various political groups. By voting for
these
amendments, MEPs can prompt the Commission and the Council to come
up
with a new proposal, this time based on a serious assessment of
the
interests of all parties and a verifiable solution to the
problems,
without any more doublespeak or ambiguous terminology.
Annotated Links
-> [19]Draft Press Release 200000
Report about the successes of the Demo in BXL, focussing on
the
rise in number of petition signatures.
-> [20]CORDIS 2003-08-28: Draft legislation on patenting
computerised
inventions will stifle innovation, claim protestors
An official EU news agency reports about the demo, with an
interview of Peter Gerwinski from FFII
see also [21]CORDIS: MEPs vote to tighten up rules on
patentability of computerised inventions
Media Contacts
mail:
media at ffii org
phone:
Hartmut Pilch +49-89-18979927
More Contacts to be supplied upon request
About the Eurolinux Alliance -- www.eurolinux.org
The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an
open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations
united to promote and protect a vigourous European Software Culture
based on copyright, open standards, open competition and open source
software such as Linux. Corporate members or sponsors of EuroLinux
develop or sell software under free, semi-free and non-free licenses
for operating systems such as GNU/Linux, MacOS or MS Windows.
About the FFII -- www.ffii.org
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a
non-profit association registered in Munich, which is dedicated to
the
spread of data processing literacy. FFII supports the development of
public information goods based on copyright, free competition, open
standards. More than 250 members, 300 companies and 15,000
supporters
have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy
questions in the area of exclusivity rights (intellectual property)
in
the field of software.
Permanent URL of this Press Release
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/demo0827/index.en.html
Annotated Links
-> [22]2003/08/25-9 BXL: Software Patent Directive Amendments
Members of the European Parliament are coming back to work on
monday August 25th. It is the last week before the vote on
the
Software Patent Directive Proposal. We are organising a
conference and street rally wednesday the 27th. Some of our
friends will moreover be staying in the parliament for
several
days. Time to work decide on submission of amendments to the
software patent directive proposal is running out. FFII has
proposed one set of amendments that stick as closely as
possible to the original proposal while debugging and
somewhat
simplifying it. An alternative small set of amendments would
"cut the crap" and rewrite the directive from scratch. We
present and explain the possible approaches.
-> [23]Online Demonstration Against Software Patents
We can show our concern by physical presence as well as by
more
or less gently blocking access to webpages in a concerted
manner at certain times.
-> [24]Vote in 8 days: 2000 IT bosses urge European Parliament to
say
NO to software patents
A "Petition for a Free Europe without Software Patents" has
gained more than 150000 signatures. Among the supporters are
more than 2000 company owners and chief executives and 25000
developpers and engineers from all sectors of the European
information and telecommunication industries, as well as more
than 2000 scientists and 180 lawyers. Companies like Siemens,
IBM, Alcatel and Nokia lead the list of those whose
researchers
and developpers want to protect programming freedom and
copyright property against what they see as a "patent
landgrab". Currently the patent policy of many of these
companies is still dominated by their patent departments.
These
have intensively lobbied the European Parliament to support a
proposal to allow patentability of "computer-implemented
inventions" (recent patent newspeak term which usually refers
to software in the context of patent claims, i.e. algorithms
and business methods framed in terms of generic computing
equipment), which the rapporteur, UK Labour MEP Arlene
McCarthy, backed by "patent experts" from the socialist and
conservative blocks, is trying to rush through the European
Parliament on June 30, just 13 days after she had won the
vote
in the Legal Affairs Committe (JURI).
-> [25]FFII: Software Patents in Europe
For the last few years the European Patent Office (EPO) has,
contrary to the letter and spirit of the existing law,
granted
more than 30000 patents on computer-implemented rules of
organisation and calculation (programs for computers). Now
Europe's patent movement is pressing to consolidate this
practise by writing a new law. Europe's programmers and
citizens are facing considerable risks. Here you find the
basic
documentation, starting from a short overview and the latest
news.
References
16. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/ekon0820/index.en.html
17. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0620/index.en.html
18. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0626/index.en.html
19. http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/PressRelease200000
20.
http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CAL...801&TBL=EN_NEWS
21.
http://dbs.cordis.lu/cgi-bin/srchidadb?CAL...EN_RCN_ID:20436
22. http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2003/europarl...8/index.en.html
23. http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/index.en.html
24. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/epet0622/index.en.html
25. http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
26. http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat02...p/index.en.html
27.
http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat02...s/index.en.html
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lxthusdan:
First of all: I am NOT a socialist!
Second of all: The official "bad girl" in this european patent story (in my eyes) IS a socialist!
Third of all: The socialist partys in the European Parliament are DIVIDED about this question.
Fourth of all: Considering points 1, 2 and 3, I still don't understand how this "socialist" discussion came up in this topic!...
Fifth of all: I think it could be interesting to discuss "socialism" in another topic. But I will probably not come around this forum until the end of the next week (due to lack of time). So, if you prefer to pm me, you know when you'll get the answer...
Sixth of all: I will NOT use the term "socialist" in this topic again!
I gather what you mean by your words in the context of how you use them.I thank you for your good will. :wink:
Gowator:
Staying carefully away from political terms ...I think lots of things need reinterpreting into a modern context regardless of political ideals.
First line: Wise :wink:
Second line: I call it 'pragmatism'.
What if someone patents the concept of a Bulletin Board? Its a valid concept .. perhaps. Who knows? The point is patent's were not designed for software. Someone could patent the idea of a customer database or order database but these are generic ideas they lack the concept of originality. Computers and the Internet in general open up a whole field of ideas. We are building on foundations just a few decades old.That's exactly the point here. Go and see the directive proposal on the EU's site ( http://www.europa.eu.int/ ) or on FFII's site ( http://swpat.ffii.org/ ). It's messy, it's ilogic, yet psychologicaly effective (Yeah, I thought I was getting paranoid too when I got to that conclusion). You have to remember, politicians are just human beings linke any other, and can not be experts on all subjects - their judgement often depends on other people. You can also go and look on the FFII's "Gallery of Patent Horrors". Some are rather comic!
Thank you for your post. You brought up some good points. :wink:
JaseP
First of all, let me apologize for maybe having come too strong on you on my last post. Thank you for the infos on the american legal system. I had no idea about Louisiana. I did now about you having different laws in different states.
But when it concerns to repudiating treaties, well... a "break of contract" is not something I, personally, take lightly. And, in this particular matter, you can't just put it in terms of "Well, both parts agree on that" because you'll be thinking of the governments, not the individuals who planned their lifes based on the current law.
As a note, I will not comment on you know what, for the reasons mentioned above. But I found your words about Capitalism a bit confusing. But I would rather we were not going there, because it's both off-topic and a lenghty subject. We can go on about it in another topic, maybe the one we mentioned before or maybe another.
Still, coming back to your first topic, the patent system being an economic "atta boy", you must also remember that the economy shoud serve the public first. It makes no sense to support a product or business which were to be useless, nor to charge irrealistic prices for a given product or service. You get the idea.. You can't boost the economy on nomatter what costs... :wink:
Cheers,
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Hi everyone,
I appreciate your comments on this. I know it's not an easy topic...
And, as I am not an expert on the question (go to FFII for that ;), but did do some homework (a few months ago, I confess, no time...), I'll just reread your posts and freely comment along the way.
Roland, your small example about IBM and SUN is right AFAICS. Wile the big guys play their 'dimes', the little ones can't even afford a patent (an european patent costs between 50000 and 150000 Euros (about the same figures in US Dollars)). Now, the minimum allowed wages for a portuguese worker is about 350 Euros (I don't recall the estimated average wages, but it shoud be near 1000-1500 Euros (optimistic ;). I remember Bill Gates comming to Portugal some 3-4 years ago, and it was said that the value of our Brute Internal Product (sorry for the translation) was less than uncle Gates' personal earnings on that year!!!
And yes, unfortunatelly, with this directive, lawyers will have the last word (if not the only one). By the way, I read somewhere that one thing is SUN's Developpers Department, a completelly different one is SUN's Patent Department...
Well, lxthusdan, maybe you can clarify me on this one: WTH has "socialist propaganda" to do with all this? In case you didn't notice, the *official* pusher of the directive is a UK's Labour Party representative (a socialist 'alias'). And please remember, the EU is not the USA. E.g. there are not 2 but 7 political groups + 1 group of non-affilliated MEPs (8 in total) currently in the Europen Parlament (though you usually place them somewhere in a left-right line). And, in Portugal, 'Republic' and 'Democracy' mean basically the same - in latin and greek, respectivelly, 'Public Reason' and 'Public Will'. And so on, etc, und so weiter...
As for what it was 'meant' and what it 'turned out' to be... well, you can learn with your mistakes...
And if what you said apllies "to copyright and intelectual property as well", we already have that - and also a thing called Munich Convention that forbids patents on "computer implemented inventions".
JaseP, as you said, only a something *as big as* a treatise could give a thorough explanation. I respect your education, but remember what I said to lxthusdan, and also that the US law derives from the Common Law style. Inside the EU we have the Roman style, the Germanic and the Common Law as well. The EU state-members are not the United States (of America) - try and compare histories. Then do the same but using history books from another EU country... Laws, politics, economics, culture, etc are all linked in formal and informal ways - in the present and over time.
roland (again ;), point 2 is a good point. You're trying to explain the process of inovation as it most often occurs in the software industry - "sequecial and complementary", meaning, one innnovation requires a prior one (or ones) (e.g. Amazon One Click requires Internet, and lots more, I can imagine ;). It also often complements the prior innnovation, making this one more valuable.
lxthusdan: Again "socialist ideology"!? There are many ways of thinking and acting, you know... There are more colors than just two. Actually, Karl Marx wasn't the only socialist (or the first AFAIR). And in sociology, you'd be teached there is the "scientific socialism" and the "utopic socialism". And guess what, Marx gets in the first group...
Gowator It would be sweet if the European initiative would really be intending to "draw a line between what is patentable and what isn't". But you can't really put it like that. Tying to keep it simple: the European Comission (who actually writes the laws), procedure is pushing the directive - they are not elected but nominated. But it won't become effective unless the Europen Parliament approves it - the MEPs are directly elected byt the people. The European Union Council (representatives of the nationally elected government) also have a saying on the (non) approval of laws. Then there are several consultive organs (less political) - at least three of them are against the directive. So, who really wants what?... And, *get this*, the European Patent Office[b/] has been ilegally granting patents for over 20 years. And why? Because the Munich Convention (among others) already states what can and can not be patented!!! And "computer implemented inventions" can not be patented. On the other hand, the TRIPs agreement (signed later on) could actually induce the opposite. It really is one big mess!
Ok, bye for now, sorry for the so long post. On doubt, smile... :)
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Hello everyone,
I got this yesterday:
FFII News -- For Immediate Release -- Please Redistribute+++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++ +++
Aug 27 Demonstrations against EU Software Patent Plans
Brussels 2003/08/19
For immediate Release
The Proposal for a software patent directive, which will be
submitted
to the European Parliament for plenary debate and subsequent
decision
on September 1st, giving rise to another wave of protests. Various
groups in Belgium and elsewhere are mobilising for a rally in
Brussels
on August 27th and are calling on web administrators to temporarily
block their web sites.
Details
The Proposal for a software patent directive, which will be
submitted
to the European Parliament for plenary debate and subsequent
decision
on September 1st, giving rise to another wave of protests. The
Eurolinux Alliance is calling for participation in a rally in
Brussels
on August 27th, comprising a street performance at 12.00 on
Luxemburg
Square and conference at 14.00 in the European Parliament, and for
accompanying online demonstrations.
"The directive proposal as prepared by Arlene McCarthy MEP would
impose US-style unlimited patentability of algorithms and business
methods such as Amazon One Click Shopping" says Benjamin Henrion,
who
is heading a local organisational team with the backing of a
coalition
of organisations representing 2000 software companies and 160,000
individuals, mostly software professionals.
In an appeal, the organisers call on European citizens to stand up
for
the public interest to defend freedom of creation against logic
patents, to defend copyright-based software property against
patent-based software piracy, to defend software innovation against
patent inflation, to defend software users against reduced choices
and
monopoly pricing.
They call on the European Patent Office: Stop littering Europe's
information highway! and on the European Parliament: Punish the
polluters, don't legalise the pollution!
The program in Brussels is approximately as follows, more details
will
be supplied soon:
12.00-14.00 | Place du Luxembourg | Performance, balloons, patent
chain,
speeches, ...
14.00-16.00 | EuroParl[13][1] | Conference
"In May a [14]two-day software patent conference in and near the
European Parliament attracted 200 participants. Leaders of the
scientific commuities and software business world condemned the
directive proposal in every respect. Yet in June the EP Legal
Affairs
Commission endorsed this proposal with further amendments that make
it
even worse", explains Henrion. "More and more people are now seeing
this very clearly. We expect even more participatants this time."
Yet the vast majority of our supporters will certainly not be on
Luxemburg Square on August 27th. "Those who can not come to Brussels
should demonstrate online, using their web servers or other internet
services", says Hartmut Pilch, president of FFII. "We have
[15]proposed a series of ways in which this can be done. There is
certainly a way for everyone. Better make access to your webpage a
bit
more difficult now for one or two days than lose your freedom of
publication for the next ten years. Note that if the McCarthy report
is approved without drastic amendments, programmers and Internet
Service Providers will be regularly sued for patent infringement, if
they publish programs on the Internet. If the Parliament votes for
the
McCarthy proposal now, there will be no more chances for democratic
control later."
Annotated Links
-> [16]AEL Big Demo 27 aug Wiki
Hints on how to participate in the demo, needed equipment on
site, who provides what, etc
-> [17]FFII BXL 2003/08 Wiki
Holger's editable auxiliary pages for the 2003/08/27 demo and
related events. Includes hints on hotel/hostel rooms,
t-shirts,
banners etc
-> [18]2003/08 Letter to Software Creators and Users
The European Parliament will, in its plenary session on
September 1st, decide on a directive proposal which ensures
that algorithms and business methods like Amazon One Click
Shopping become patentable inventions in Europe. This
proposal
has the backing of about half of the parliament. Please help
us
make sure that it will be rejected. Here are some things to
do.
-> [19]2003/08/25-9 BXL: Software Patent Directive Amendments
Members of the European Parliament are coming back to work on
monday August 25th. It is the last week before the vote on
the
Software Patent Directive Proposal. We are organising a
conference and street rally wednesday the 27th. Some of our
friends will moreover be staying in the parliament for
several
days. Time to work decide on submission of amendments to the
software patent directive proposal is running out. FFII has
proposed one set of amendments that stick as closely as
possible to the original proposal while debugging and
somewhat
simplifying it. An alternative small set of amendments would
"cut the crap" and rewrite the directive from scratch. We
present and explain the possible approaches.
-> [20]Online Demonstration Against Software Patents
We can show our concern by physical presence as well as by
more
or less gently blocking access to webpages in a concerted
manner at certain times.
-> [21]European Parliament Rejects Attempt to Rush Vote on Software
Patent Directive
The European Parliament has postponed the vote on the
software
patent directive back to the original date of 1st of
September,
thereby rejecting initially successful efforts of its
rapporteur Arlene McCarthy (UK Labour MEP of Manchester) and
her supporters to rush to vote on June 30th, a mere twelve
days
after publication of the highly controversial report and ten
days after the unexpected change of schedule.
-> [22]JURI votes for Fake Limits on Patentability
The European Parliament's Committee for Legal Affairs and the
Internal Market (JURI) voted on tuesday morning about a list
of
proposed amendments to the planned software patent directive.
It was the third and last in a series of committee votes,
whose
results will be presented to the plenary in early september.
The other two commissions (CULT, ITRE) had opted to more or
less clearly exclude software patents. The JURI rapporteur
Arlene McCarthy MEP (UK socialist) also claimed to be aiming
for a "restrictive harmonisation of the status quo" and
"exclusion of software as such, algorithms and business
methods
from patentability". Yet McCarthy presented a voting list to
fellow MEPs which, upon closer look, turns ideas like "Amazon
One-Click Shopping" into patentable inventions. McCarthy and
her followers rejected all amendment proposals that try to
define central terms such as "technical" or "invention",
while
supporting some proposals which reinforce the patentability
of
software, e.g. by making publication of software a direct
patent infringment, by stating that "computer-implemented
inventions by their very nature belong to a field of
technology", or by inserting new economic rationales
("self-evident" need for Europeans to rely on "patent
protection" in view of "the present trend for traditional
manufacturing industry to shift their operations to low-cost
economies outside the European Union") into the recitals.
Most
of McCarthy's proposals found a conservative-socialist 2/3
majority (20 of 30 MEPs), whereas most of the proposals from
the other committees (CULT = Culture, ITRE = Industry) were
rejected. Study reports commissioned by the Parliament and
other EU institutions were disregarded or misquoted, as some
of
their authors point out (see below). A few socialists and
conservatives voted together with Greens and Left in favor of
real limits on patentability (such as the CULT opinion, based
on traditional definitions, that "data processing is not a
field of technology" and that technical invention is about
"use
of controllable forces of nature"), but they were overruled
by
the two largest blocks. Most MEPs simply followed the voting
lists of their "patent experts", such as Arlene McCarthy (UK)
for the Socialists (PSE) and shadow rapporteur Dr. Joachim
Wuermeling (DE) for the Conservatives (EPP). Both McCarthy
and
Wuermeling have closely followed the advice of the directive
proponents from the European Patent Office (EPO) and the
European Commission's Industrial Property Unit (CEC-Indprop,
represented by former UK Patent Office employee Anthony
Howard)
and declined all offers of dialog with software professionals
and academia ever since they were nominated rapporteurs in
May
2002.
-> [23]Why Amazon One Click Shopping is Patentable under the
Proposed
EU Directive
According to the European Commission (CEC)'s Directive
Proposal
COM(2002)92 for "Patentability of Computer-Implemented
Inventions" and the revised version approved by the European
Parliament's Committee for Legal Affairs and the Internal
Market (JURI), algorithms and business methods such as Amazon
One Click Shopping are without doubt patentable subject
matter.
This is because
1. Any "computer-implemented" innovation is in principle
considered to be a patentable "invention".
2. The additional requirement of "technical contribution in
the
inventive step" does not mean what most people think it
means.
3. The directive proposal explicitly aims to codify the
practise
of the European Patent Office (EPO). The EPO has already
granted thousands of patents on algorithms and business
methods similar to Amazon One Click Shopping.
4. CEC and JURI have built in further loopholes so that, even
if
some provisions are amended by the European Parliament,
unlimited patentability remains assured.
-> [24]FFII: Software Patents in Europe
For the last few years the European Patent Office (EPO) has,
contrary to the letter and spirit of the existing law,
granted
more than 30000 patents on computer-implemented rules of
organisation and calculation (programs for computers). Now
Europe's patent movement is pressing to consolidate this
practise by writing a new law. Europe's programmers and
citizens are facing considerable risks. Here you find the
basic
documentation, starting from a short overview and the latest
news.
Contact
mail:
media at ffii org
phone:
Hartmut Pilch +49-89-18979927
[25]Benjamin Henrion +32-10-454761
More Contacts to be supplied upon request
About the Eurolinux Alliance -- www.eurolinux.org
The EuroLinux Alliance for a Free Information Infrastructure is an
open coalition of commercial companies and non-profit associations
united to promote and protect a vigourous European Software Culture
based on copyright, open standards, open competition and open source
software such as Linux. Corporate members or sponsors of EuroLinux
develop or sell software under free, semi-free and non-free licenses
for operating systems such as GNU/Linux, MacOS or MS Windows.
About the FFII -- www.ffii.org
The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure (FFII) is a
non-profit association registered in Munich, which is dedicated to
the
spread of data processing literacy. FFII supports the development of
public information goods based on copyright, free competition, open
standards. More than 250 members, 300 companies and 15,000
supporters
have entrusted the FFII to act as their voice in public policy
questions in the area of exclusivity rights (intellectual property)
in
the field of software.
Permanent URL of this Press Release
http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/demo0819/index.en.html
_________________________________________________________________
Notes
[1] Room number to be announced tomorrow. External visitors,
including journalists, need to register in advance. Please contact
bxl030827 at ffii org for this purpose.
References
14. http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2003/europarl...5/index.en.html
15. http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/index.en.html
16. http://wiki.ael.be/index.php/BigDemo27aug
17. http://offen.ffii.org/bxl/
18. http://swpat.ffii.org/letters/parl038/index.en.html
19. http://swpat.ffii.org/events/2003/europarl...8/index.en.html
20. http://swpat.ffii.org/group/demo/index.en.html
21. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/plen0626/index.en.html
22. http://swpat.ffii.org/news/03/juri0617/index.en.html
23. http://swpat.ffii.org/papers/eubsa-swpat02...h/index.en.html
24. http://swpat.ffii.org/index.en.html
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What I told you before works for me as for sending e-mails to any valid e-mail adress on the internet, NOT receiving! Don't ask me why. :) . Just type:
mail someone@some.mail.server
And that's that. Subject, message (terminated by a line containing a single '.' (dot), and Cc will be asked to you at the prompt.
Stil, you can receive e-mails form other users on your local machine. E.g.:
[user1@localhost ]$ mail user2
Subejct: Testing
This is a test.
.
Cc:
And user2 on the same machine user1 sent the e-mail from will get that e-mail.
Sorry, that's all I can tell you...
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Thanks aru, worked fine :D
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I tried the tip, but it didn't look any faster than before on loading an «empty» OOo Writer.
Still, if johnnyv is right, it might work for some PowerPoint files I sometimes get by e-mail. I'll tell you later...
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Hi,
In rxvt, I can't get to input locale characters, such as é or ã and others. It does displays them, e.g., when a filename has them. But inputing them doesn't work.
I don't know if other non-US keyboards have additional keys, but here, you just press 'followed by e to get the é.
Option "-grk iso" might do the trick, but rxvt doesn't recognize that (not even the -grk which is documented in the man page).
Any ideas?
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H+BEDV AntiVirus ( http://www.hbedv.com ) is a virus scanner, available for Linux free of charge, no trial version... You just have to register with them (for free...) to get a license key by e-mail, renewable after a one year period (again, for free). Works fine, even detected the BugBear virus in my Windows partition (my girlfriend needs it for work purposes...), which AVG (another free virus scanner, but for Windows) didn't... :)
Virus definitions are updated almost everyday, and it's as easy to do as typing "antivirus --update" as root (unless you change some permissions) to do an internet update. You can also type "antivirus --update --check" as a normal user just to check for updates.
The program itself can be updated by the same means - and will, if available! In this case, you can configure AntiVir to test the update with GnuPG... :wink:
AvGuard works in the background to check open/closed/executed files (behaviour configurable). It comes packed with AntiVir... 8)
AvUpdater automatically checks for and installs updates.
This next one I haven't tried: H+BEDV (again) AvMailgate. For e-mail server/client scanning. It's available for severall different protocols.
PS: This software is free for Personal use only (after you get your personal key). A Commercial version is available as well.
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Hi everyone,
I installed OpenBox window manager from source and it works fine.
But I'd like to have the system menu in it. And also to have it automatically updated whenever a new Mandrake package kicks a new item in the Mandrake's system menu.
I guess it could work if I could get menudrake to see the *non Mandrake released* window manager as just another one (as it does for KDE or GNOME or even BlackBox).
Any suggestions?
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Hi
In the /etc/postfix/main.cf file, you'll find two variables: "myhostname" and "mydomain'. I believe the last is actually more important than the first, as I just realised I got "myhostanme" instead of "myhostname"!...
Anyway, I'm far from being an expert but I realised that, to have a fully qualified hostname, you should give values to both those variables (and it can be most anything - I got it working with stuff like "jeanackle.casa").
Using the las hostname you specified, it would be:
myhostname = jughead.omneb.us.com
and
mydomain = omneb.us.com
Try that :wink:
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Sorry...
Damn, I'm turning
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:roll: err, well, you're forgiven... :mrgreen:
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Daned coworker! :x
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Hi James,
I use an antivirus with Linux for 2 reasons:
1- I could accidentally forward an e-mail with virus to someon else using windoze...
2- There are Linux virus... Did you ever ear of the Slapper virus for instance... Incidentally, a few months ago I bought a magazine called 'h4ck3r' which taught to make a linux virus... :shock:
About my kernel, everything looks fine with 2.4.21-0.18mdk, even though hte compiled kernel was pre-compiled by mandrake and not myself. It's just that some 'security updates' sound like chinese to me (note: I don't understand chinese...) :)
Still, thanks for yor reply...
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Thanks four your replies.
My problem are the security updates "relevant to my system". For instance, do I have a route cache, or do I use ioperm? Sincerely, I have no idea...
Mozilla and Galeon crash...
in Software
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I got my java (both versions) from: http://java.sun.com
And i used the self-extracting to rpm files.