Logam Dvaitam, Kadhal Advaitam
Listening to a song (Yakkai Thiri)from the recent Tamil movie Ayutha Ezhuthu, left me wondering if the lyrics were just tomfoolery or had real profound meanings. After some deliberate efforts and research I was able to recall what "Dvaitam" and "Advaitam" were supposed to be. Although Advaitam (oneness of soul ?) made some sense when used analogous to Kadhal ( love ), Dvaitam is duality of the supreme soul and the ordinary soul of man, failed to connect to the Logam ( World ). Does anybody out there have a clue ?
Software-Patents in Europe: The threat prevails
Soon the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers
will again decide about the legalisation and adoption of so-called
"software patents" in Europe, which are already used by large companies
in other countries to put competitors out of business. This can lead to
the termination of many free software projects, at least within Europe,
because the holders of the over 30,000 already granted "software
patents" (currently without a legal foundation) can claim exclusive
rights and collect license fees for trivial things like "progress
bars", "mouseclicks on online order forms", "scrolling within a window"
and similar.
That way, software developers will have to pay the
"software-patentholders" for using these features, even in their own,
completely self-developed applications, which can completely stall the
development of innovative software for small and medium companies.
Apart from this, the expense for patent inquiries and legal assistence
is high, for even trying to find out if the self-developed software is possibly violating "software-patents", if you want to continue to market your software.
Contrary to real patents, "software-patents" are, in the draft
proposed by the commission, monopolization of business ideas and
methods, even without any tangible technical implementation.
More about the current major problem at the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure and the Petition for a Software Patent Free Europe. (Text adopted from Klaus Knopper. and http://msquadrat.de/)
