Re: [debian-knoppix] Software patent?
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 07:17:25PM +0200, Kai Lahmann wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2003 19:03 schrieb Ramanan Selvaratnam:
> > The offending report has been withdrawn (which would have paved the way
> > for the new legislature on software patents) from next week's agenda in
> > the European parliament. :-)
>
> YES! Where is it written?
It is just a rumour yet. Even if they would not be voting about this
draft, it would not make things much better, since there could always be
the next draft, which is more obfuscated and confusing, and thus could
pass through unnoticed, creating facts. What we need is a definitive
"no!"- voting about software patents, in general, from the parliament,
to keep Europe as innovator in software technology.
> > I am sure there is more work to be done though.
>
> jup, but we have time again. Maybe with latest changes we can even win MS
> against software patents!
Kai, are you aware that MS is one of the largest software patent
holders, and as part of BSA lobby, one of the originators of the current
pro-softwarepatent draft?
Regards
-Klaus
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