On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 11:52:58AM +0200, Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet wrote: > Stephen Zander wrote: > > I don't believe the US will ever stop supporting softare patents; > > there's too much money at stake. > > By the same reasoning, the EC member states should also all > support software patents. The European industry also has a > lot of money at stake in software-related R&D (all the > software in DVD players and mobile phones, for example).
Software patents is the biggest threat for free software and we should *never* support them. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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