On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:58:28AM -0500, Drew Northup wrote: > The Netherlands is one place that doesn't support the sanctity of software > patents. To be honest, Kevin and I are most worried about that.
There is already a proposal from the EU to legalise American style software patents. But things are going better here than in the US and with a bit of luck we're able to stop those crazy ideas. I don't know about the status of the proposed Hague treaty, but we really have to stop that too. (FYI: I'm from the Netherlands and I'm seeing it getting worse here :() But my question is: What's wrong with having the current hosting in the US, as long as there are mirrors (optionally for backup only) in other countries? I think using savannah is great and would patents ever become a problem, I'm sure the FSF would help us. I don't see a reason for not using savannah. (but maybe I'm just biased) And even in the US, I don't think a patent for visualization would be enforceable. Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
