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Transparents du séminaire Aristote "CPS: plateforme d'ECM libre basée sur Zope"

Je viens de publier les transparents de la présentation que j'ai faite hier au séminaire Aristote sur la gestion de contenu.

Merci à Frédéric Jacquemet pour l'invitation.

Nuxeo against software patents

Here is a text that I've just written in support of the latest campaign against software patents in europe.

At Nuxeo, we are developing, with other european and non-european companies, world-class software in the field of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), a field currently dominated by american companies like Documentum, OpenText, IBM or Microsoft. These companies own a certain amount of patents that may or may not cover parts of what we are doing with our software, and may or may not be "bogus" patents, i.e. patents that would be invalidated by prior art. Finding out the patents that we may infringe upon, and and then trying to find evidence of prior art, would however take us so much of our own time, and of outside experts fees, that it would probably stop us from keeping innovating and distract a lot of our energy from our customers projects.

On our latest project, we have calculated that all the checks, audits and insurance fees needed to cover some of legal risk would amount to increasing our costs by 30 to 50%, with absolutely no benefits in terms of added value for our customers.
So, if these american companies are allowed to extend their software patents on the european territory, and since we are gaining market share at their expense, we are almost certain that they will use their patent portfolio against us in order to try to regain their market position.

We strongly believe that our situation is not an exception, but rather the general case, and that all european software companies have a lot to lose if the Software Patents Directive is adopted in its current state.

(Added at 17pm) My testimony is now online on the Economic Majority site, alongside other fine people like Pierre Haren (Ilog) or Håkon Wium Lie (Opera).

Nouveau site "corporate" nuxeo.com

Youpi, nous avons un nouveau site.

La plateforme est du CPS 3.3.3 avec CPSSkins + WebPublisher + quelques customs.

Le design est de moi au depart, avec des contributions d'Eric et Arnaud.

Un grand merci a Eric pour son travail de "CPSSkinification" du design.

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