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The European Commission's Policy-Making on Software Patents Inside Standards

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Summary: The European Commission is hostile towards FOSS (Free and Open Source Software); it not only uses a lot of proprietary software from Microsoft but it also serves a pile of proprietary garbage pretending to be a Web site that mostly loses feedback from the public on matters of monopoly policies

THE proprietary leanings of the EC are a matter of public record. Just look at the official site, including the site of the corrupt EUIPO. It's just so awful. Usability and accessibility there are truly awful. They hate standards; they hate the Web.



"They hate standards; they hate the Web."The video above, however, focuses on patent policies, though the EC uses propaganda terms very extensively because these terms bias the debate; the loaded, intentionally-misleading words are there for a reason and that's why the EPO's Benoît Battistelli and António Campinos spread them. We're meant to think that code is "intellectual property" and thus we need European software patents.

After some search (on the strings "patent" and "patents" among others) or research in the EC's awful Web site an associate of ours narrowed things down to about 4 links. "There have been four software patent-related initiatives in the EC this summer," the associate concluded.

"This terrible JavaScript mess (and accessibility nightmare in general) isn't a new problem at the EC. It merely serves to reaffirm the troubling biases of the EC."We've filtered this further to have just a few links and feedback as discussed in the video above; the "new framework for standard-essential patents" (misnomer) is preceded by "Intellectual property" (another misnomer) and Simon Phipps (OSI) can be found among the comments. There's also some feefback from the University of Skövde, which mentions Free software. Sadly, many of the interesting comments are now dead links (or became invalidated). "This also snuck through," the associate noted, but again a lot of the links failed to work.

This terrible JavaScript mess (and accessibility nightmare in general) isn't a new problem at the EC. It merely serves to reaffirm the troubling biases of the EC.

"Disappointing but not surprising," our associate called it. "So they are not a page but some highly "clever" web "app" in place of a proper information retrieval system and the unspoken goal seems to be to ensure that the public cannot follow what the EC is up to."

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