On: Not April Fools: New Zealand Proposing Software Patent Ban

[keltex]

Sounds like a new business opportunity to setup hosting SAS hosting in New Zealand.

[gorog → keltex]

The EU and half of the world forbid or severely limit software patents. This is why VLC (a European team) doesn't pay for codec patents.

[jhancock → keltex]

You mean SAS as in the products made by bigco sas.com ???

If your talking about writing your own SAS competitor which infringes on SAS patents, thats one thing. But your comment seems to indicate your talking about software piracy, which does not seem to be what this NZ proposal is about.

[warfangle → jhancock]

I do believe he meant Software as Service (aka, Software As A Service aka SaaS), not SAS Institute, Inc.

[josh_on → warfangle]

Or this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Special_Air_Service

[wisty → warfangle]

Obviously. If he was suggesting outright piracy, Windows Server and Oracle would be much more profitable.