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Revision as of 19:40, 3 August 2010
What this entry documents is not a solution.
This practice may be ineffective or useless in the long term.
ESP's position is that abolition of software patents is the only solution.
History has shown that antitrust law and other laws to protect competition don't work against problems caused by patents.
In the EU case against Microsoft, which Microsoft lost, the final settlement allows Microsoft to use it's software patents against all commercial software projects, including commercial projects that develop free software.[1]
The US case is less clear. It involves hardware manufacturers, so the existence of patent royalties isn't a crunch issue (unlike software where it breaks common software distribution models). The case in question is the Federal Trade Commission's case against Rambus provides a complicated example, without much good news. (This is well described on Wikipedia: Rambus#Lawsuits
In the European Union, this is being tested again in the case IBM and TurboHercules, 2010.
Related pages on ESP Wiki
External links
- US Federal Trade Commission gives up antitrust proceedings against Rambus for using patents against companies it negotiated standards with
- US FTC report, 2007 (I haven't read this, maybe it's not relevant)
- YouTube video of EU Commissioner for Competition admitting that the EU ruling doesn't prevent Microsoft from demanding royalties
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