Manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's why we started the petition against software patents. If we have > software patents, programmers will have to think like lawyers before they > start to code.
Which really happened ages ago when NDAs came to use. Had there been any intervention before, we might be still old, not GNU... > Software patents will unduly restrict the entire software development > community. Unfortunately, the situation is looking grim[1]. A look at Planet Debian[2] tells me the current sentiment is `Europe is more and more becoming a Banana Republic[3]'. [1] http://wiki.ffii.org/Cons050307En [2] http://planet.debian.net [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_republic > Hehe... now for a plug... > > Petition Against Software Patents in the Philippines > http://www.petitiononline.com/openm01 > > God bless! God bless indeed! Since we're really in a Banana Republic, let's see to it that such atrocities against freedom be prevented! -- ZAK B. ELEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- <http://zakame.spunge.org> 1024D/FA53851D 1486 7957 454D E529 E4F1 F75E 5787 B1FD FA53 851D -- Running Debian GNU+Linux testing/unstable. GnuPG signed mail preferred.
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