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http://biz.gamedaily.com/features.as...=feature&email=

this is unbelieveable man!


  
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Default Re: outrageous but...thats the us for ya - 24-02-2005

Sounds incredibly sleazy that someone would try to pull a stunt like this. I'll wait a few days for more press to cover it before I believe it.

For once I'll be rooting for EA and the rest of the publishers.



  
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Default Re: outrageous but...thats the us for ya - 24-02-2005

how is one guy going to go against all these big companies??
he going to lose unless he has some kind of solid evidence that so many companies' lawyers cannot find a loop hole to get past..
  
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sometimes i hate living here
  
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Default Re: outrageous but...thats the us for ya - 24-02-2005

that's ridiculous, it's not even a question of legitimacy, it's once more the matter of one man wanting to make $$$ on the back of many others >

it's the people's mentality which is corrupted there, I say.



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Default Re: outrageous but...thats the us for ya - 24-02-2005

patents used on software is just something not to let others write software to do a specific job (including free software AND proprietary software).
  
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I hope that the next time patents in europe will be rejected again :-\ This is $ad..
  
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well, it is sad, but a clear result of pure capitalism. and such 'communist' ideas as open source proved them wrong, but well, we'll see


  
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BU, a den of communists ?

come on... comrades



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Default Re: outrageous but...thats the us for ya - 24-02-2005

I just hope Poland will keep opposing software patents in europe. I haven't heart one good argument why such a thing should ever be reality, and this is yet another case where the patents are misused :/

I can't comprehend why the danish government can't see that this shouldn't happen... but i guess the majority of the people in the danish parlament are noobs and have absolutely no clue about what's going on.

But stuff like this isn't neccesary bad, since it might open someones eyes to the problem.


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