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[DMCA-Activists] New EPO On-line Filing SW tied to MS Windows
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Seth Johnson |
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[DMCA-Activists] New EPO On-line Filing SW tied to MS Windows |
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Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:52:10 -0500 |
(Forwarded from Patents list. Blog text pasted below. -- Seth)
-----Original Message-----
From: James Heald <address@hidden>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:05:38 +0000
Subject: [Patents] New EPO on-line filing software tied to MS Windows
See Axel Horns's blog:
http://www.ipjur.com/2004_02_01_archive.php3#107718762240592508
You would have thought that some quasi-governmental organisations might
just be starting to wake up to the dangers of vendor lock-in by now ??
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> http://www.ipjur.com/2004_02_01_archive.php3#107718762240592508
epoline-OLF Software is a Delphi Project tied to Microsoft Windows
Platforms.
In my earlier posting I had reported about the open source approach
taken by the EPO with regard to their epoline OLF software. Yesterday
I talked to a software engineer who had inspected the source code more
in detail. In fact, the software is written in a special flavour of
Pascal, namely Delphi brought to market by Borland. Interestingly,
there is also a Linux-compatible variant of Delphi available called
Kylix. But the option to port the epoline software to Linux is
effectively blocked by an immense number of calls to Microsoft-
specific APIs in the epoline OLF code.
The PatTrAS software issued by the German Patent and Trade Mark Office
(DPMA) has been coded in a much more compatible and platform-
independent way. It is written in Java and seems to run quite well on
a Linux computer having a Java Runtime Environment installed.
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