to znie fajn ale napriklad Europsky Patentovy Urad (EPO) softver patentuje. Napriklad VLC Player musel stiahnut nejaku funkcionalitu kvoli patentu od spolocnosti DTS ( info ) .. tak neviem - spolocnosti si daju veci patentovat cez EPO a potom mozu lokalne "chranit svoje napady" .. je to divne.. zevraj tych patentov cez EPO je 10000 az 30000 doteraz..

The EPO has granted more than 10,000 patents that include software, despite it being clear that patents based on computer programs are illegal in Europe. The main argument of why this is occurring is because of the TRIPS agreement, which came into effect on 1 January 1995, and is to date the most comprehensive multilateral agreement on intellectual property. Unfortunatly there is confusion over whether software invention have an industrial application or not. Some have interpreted as being so, and others have not.

src (kusok stare) http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/hendry/work/report/

As an international organisation, the EPO is not subject to criminal law or taxation. ... High EPO officials have inflicted corporal injury on their employees and then escaped legal consequences by their right to immunity. .... The work climate within the EPO is very bad, leading to several suicides per year..... During the last few years, the European Patent Office (EPO) has granted several 10000 patents on computer-implemented rules of organisation and calculation, i.e. programs for computers [ as such ]....

pekne kocurkovo ;) http://swpat.ffii.org/gasnu/epo/index.en.html