= Noticias =

Europe Shareware will organize along with ISOC Poland, a polish employers' association, as well as various polish and european political groups, a conference on software patents in the Polish Parliament.

Sylvain Perchaud be Europe Shareware's spokesman.

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New in this release:

• Eureka and its companion programs take advantage of a new compiler and of new libraries. It is the case for 3D2POV, TRI2POV, RECORD, SCR_DMP, IMG2RAW and IMG_SHOW, where the passing on of parameters and the management of long file names are improved.
• Some problems with the AES have been fixed. Thanks to MyAeS to have made it possible to discover those problems. In fact, it is very interesting to have an AES less permissive than others, as it's a very good way to reveal a lot of things. Not only Eureka take advantage of this. "MyAeS is a true benediction!", the author says.

New in this release:

• This release celebrates the eight years of Eureka on Internet. It has not been possible to celebrate the seventeen years of development - with, the past eight years, an update almost each month - in february, because of a failure (now fixed) of the authors' Hades 060. He does not think yet to make use of an emulator to develop his program.
• The demo at start of the program has been improved. It is more fluid (?) with some configurations, from the display point of view.
• Some optimisations have taken place to speed up the rotations in space. The demo is managed better on screen, and is also faster. But the rotation in space of all the objects has also been improved and speeded up. The observation mode of "interactive" 3D objects has therefore a better interactivity.
• The creation of the file "image.txt" at the same time as the "image.raw" one has been removed. This file is of no real use as the 2D image is enough.
• A comment about the management of the AES has been taken in account.

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16 pages of software patents news. A lawyer gets a patent on the World Wide Web domain naming system, Eolas wins against Microsoft, many new software patents, mainstream media is covering the software patents crisis.

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A very huge newsletter. Some Microsoft software patents, a patent on access to data stored on a CD, many articles, etc.

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